Bibliography: Books

1) “Genre is a powerful tool for making sense of texts. Genres work by providing conventions which allow efficient communication between producers and audiences”

– Mckee, Alan, (2003): Textual Analysis a beginner’s guide. SAGE publications Ltd London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi. PG 95

2) “The uses ad gratifications approach was developed. This model assumed that the individuals in the audience determined their own selection and use of media texts and meanings which they used to gratify certain needs, such as finding a diversion from everyday life, and that the media had little power”

- Marshal, Jill and Werndly, Angela (2002): The Language of Television. PG 4

3) “Channel 4’s Big Brother3 had sex, greed and fear on auto hold for most of the duration of its summer season. The makers of Big Brother manipulated the audiences, manipulated their gormless contestants, manipulated the tabloid and broadsheet press, manipulated the So Graham Norton shows wit neatly tied-in cross referencing and probably even unintentionally manipulated themselves”

- Dyla, Eddie: BFI Film & Television handbook 2003. British Film Institute. PG 24

4) GRAPH – Number 44: Average TV Audience Share (%) of TV Channels 2002.

- Dyla, Eddie: BFI Film & Television handbook 2004. British Film Institute PG 57.

5) “While Big Brother 4 final drew in a peak audience of 7.4 million viewers fell some 2 million short of last year’s final. For the first time since channel 4 started showing Big Brother three years ago, the final attracted fewer viewers than the debut show”

- Dyla, Eddie: BFI Film & Television handbook 2004. British Film Institute PG 23

6) “They have to satisfy the television audiences by being “real” and “authentic” while at them same time keeping the other housemates on their side” PG 20something -Creeber, Glen: Fifty Key Television Programmes. Edward Arnold (publishers) limited

7) "In 2003 Reality TV shows still dominated prime time slots with karaoke programmes like Fame Academy and Pop Idol generating unworthily levels of mass adulation for their starry- eyes contestants"
- Dyla, Eddie: BFI Film & Television handbook 2004. British Film Institute PG21

8) "Audience research sometimes claims to the find "the reality" of the interpretations made by audiences"
– Mckee, Alan, (2003): Textual Analysis a beginner’s guide. SAGE publications Ltd London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi. PG 84

9) “Genres are flexible, subject to a constant process of change and adaptation. Generic boundaries can never be rigidly defined, and all generic groupings are susceptible to extensive subdivision”

- Maltby, Richard (2003): Hollywood Cinema. UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

10) “Genre can be approached from the point of view of the industry and its infrastructure, from the point of view of their aesthetic traditions, from the point of view of the broader socio-cultural environment upon which they draw and into which they feed, and from the point of view audience understanding and response”

- Neale, Steve (2002): Genre and Contemporary Hollywood. London: British Film Institute.