Persistência da reality TV

Authors

  • Arlindo Machado Universidade de São Paulo / Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
  • Marta Lucía Vélez Universidad de Caldas, Manizales

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-7114.sig.2009.68090

Keywords:

The Up Series, Reality TV, Public television, Private television, History of television.

Abstract

The Up Series is the longest-running reality TV series on television, having started out in 1964, with no time to finish. It´s about the growing up of a group of British seven-year-old children. Every seven years, the director Michael Apted returns to these “children” to know what happened to them during the previous seven years. The program is still being made, but the “children” are now 52 years old. Based on this program, the article discusses questions related to surveillance, voyeurism, privacy invasion, public auto-exhibition, and also the technical, political, economic and semiotic evolution of television in the last 50 years. In other words, The Up Series is seen here as a synthesis of the history of both television and public space.

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Published

2009-12-23

Issue

Vol. 36 No. 32 (2009)

Section

Articles

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Copyright (c) 2009 Arlindo Machado, Marta Lucía Vélez

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How to Cite

Persistência da reality TV. (2009). Significação: Journal of Audiovisual Culture, 36(32), 11-41. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-7114.sig.2009.68090