BIG BROTHER - The Reality Show as a Globalized Post- Documentary Form

In this book I am attempting to scrutinise the Big Brother show (Endemol, 1999) - the archetype of the reality show genre (Cummings, D, 2002, xii) - as a cultural product of our post-modern-late capitalism era (Jameson, F, 1993, xii). In specific, I am focusing on its function as a pop- culture globalised post-documentary form that, on the one hand, reflects our eras post-modern dimension, and through the space-time processes decontextualises space (geography) and time (history), and thus, distorts our sense of the real and transcends the cultural borders; while on the other hand, reflects our eras late- capitalism dimension, and thus, the western capitalistic spaces, (pop-) cultural symbols and social dynamics. Therefore, Big Brother, enhances the globalisation process in the form of westernisation.