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Freakshow : first person media and factual television /

True confessions, fake films and docu-soaps - in the last ten years factual television has been transformed by an explosion of new genres. Freakshow offers a serious look at 'reality TV' in an attempt to understand the mass media's fascination with intimacy, deviancy, and horror. Jon...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dovey, Jon
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2000.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Show me the Money
  • 2. Klutz Films
  • 3. Camcorder Cults
  • 4. Firestarters
  • Re-viewing Reality TV
  • 5. Confessing Nation
  • 6. McDox 'R' Us
  • Docu-Soap and the Triumph of Trivia
  • 7. Squaring Circles.