 Seven theses about border genres / five modest proposals about docudrama Seven theses about border genres
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Media public spaces resonate with the 'nosy sociability' of Reality TV (John Corner again). The mediated-evidential is widely accepted as either shocking or banal - or both. Whatever, catching people out (or in) is fun - Big Brother may be watching you but it's only for a laugh. This cultural turn towards the tabloid has seen the rise of 'popular factual entertainment' in the UK, Europe, the Old Empires and the USA. Do the new forms re-configure the public? If so, how are nations (or rather nations-with-in-nations) being re-constituted? To what extent is the new factual cultural capital transnational? The place of 'the national image in the international imaginary' (John Caughie) is the crux for the 21st century - representation or representative? |
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