Freakshow: First Person Media and Factual Television

by Jon Dovey

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745314503
• ISBN13: 9780745314501
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"