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ID
2092246
Banca
IESES
Órgão
Potigás - RN
Ano
2012
Provas
Disciplina
Inglês
Assuntos

Reality Television

    Reality television is a genre of television programming which, it is claimed, presents unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and features ordinary people rather than professional actors. It could be described as a form of artificial or "heightened" documentary. Although the genre has existed in some form or another since the early years of television, the current explosion of popularity dates from around 2000.

    Reality television covers a wide range of television programming formats, from game or quiz shows which resemble the frantic, often demeaning programmes produced in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s (a modern example is Gaki no tsukai), to surveillance- or voyeurism- focused productions such as Big Brother.

    Critics say that the term "reality television" is somewhat of a misnomer and that such shows frequently portray a modified and highly influenced form of reality, with participants put in exotic locations or abnormal situations, sometimes coached to act in certain ways by off-screen handlers, and with events on screen manipulated through editing and other post-production techniques.

    Part of reality television's appeal is due to its ability to place ordinary people in extraordinary situations. For example, on the ABC show, The Bachelor, an eligible male dates a dozen women simultaneously, travelling on extraordinary dates to scenic locales. Reality television also has the potential to turn its participants into national celebrities, outwardly in talent and performance programs such as Pop Idol, though frequently Survivor and Big Brother participants also reach some degree of celebrity.

    Some commentators have said that the name "reality television" is an inaccurate description for several styles of program included in the genre. In competition-based programs such as Big Brother and Survivor, and other special-living-environment shows like The Real World, the producers design the format of the show and control the day-to-day activities and the environment, creating a completely fabricated world in which the competition plays out. Producers specifically select the participants, and use carefully designed scenarios, challenges, events, and settings to encourage particular behaviours and conflicts. Mark Burnett, creator of Survivor and other reality shows, has agreed with this assessment, and avoids the word "reality" to describe his shows; he has said, "I tell good stories. It really is not reality TV. It really is unscripted drama."

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  • Não entendi essa resposta.

  • Também não, Isabel

  • Trata-se de uma questão de interpretação de texto que não cobra a localização de um trecho direto do texto, mas sim a compreensão do que está escrito. Dessa forma, não era necessário ler o texto todo, pois o enunciado direciona o que devia ser interpretado. Vamos a ele:

    In the first line, the writer says 'it is claimed' because:

    Na primeira linha, o escritor diz 'afirma-se' porque:

    O trecho é o seguinte:

    Reality television is a genre of television programming which, it is claimed, presents unscripted dramatic or humorous situations,

    Reality television é um gênero de programação de televisão que, afirma-se, apresenta situações dramáticas ou humorísticas não roteirizadas.

    Vemos que se trata de uma marca textual que traz a impessoalidade para o texto, pois distancia o autor do texto do que foi dito, com utilização da voz passiva "afirma-se", ou seja, "é afirmado". Dessa forma, podemos dizer que a alternativa correta é a B, pois essa marca textual distancia o autor do que foi afirmado. Todas as outras alternativas não podem ser inferidas pelo texto.

    A) Incorreta - Ninguém concorda com a afirmação.

    B) Correta - Eles querem se distanciar da declaração.

    C) Incorreta - Todos concordam com a afirmação.

    D) Incorreta - Eles concordam com a afirmação.

    Gabarito: B