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Entertaining crime : television reality programs

Title
Entertaining crime : television reality programs / Mark Fishman and Gray Cavender, editors.
Publication
New York : Aldine de Gruyter, c1998.

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Additional Authors
  • Fishman, Mark, 1947-
  • Cavender, Gray, 1947-
Description
viii, 218 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Social problems and social issues
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
I. Introduction. Television reality crime programs : context and history / Gray Cavender and Mark Fishman. II. The audience of reality crime programs. The color of crime : perceptions of Caucasians' and African-Americans' involvement in crime / Mary Beth Oliver and G. Blake Armstrong -- "Crimewatch UK" : women's interpretations of televised violence / R. Emerson Dobash ... [et al.] -- Rating and reality : the persistence of the reality crime genre / Mark Fishman. III. Ideology and social control. In "The shadow of shadows" : television reality crime programming / Gray Cavender -- "Cops" : television policing as policing reality / Aaron Doyle -- Armed with the power of television : reality crime programming and the reconstruction of law and order in the United States / Pamela Donovan. IV. Crime, criminals, and victims. The world of crime according to "Cops" / Paul G. Kooistra, John S. Mahoney, and Saundra D. Westervelt -- Mixed messages : images of domestic violence on "reality" television / Dianne Cyr Carmody -- Crime fighting by television in the Netherlands / Chris Brants -- "Témoin N⁰. 1" : crime shows on French television / Hugh Dauncey.
Call Number
MWGS 01-6741
ISBN
  • 0202306151 (alk. paper)
  • 020230616X (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
98011941
OCLC
38485880
Title
Entertaining crime : television reality programs / Mark Fishman and Gray Cavender, editors.
Imprint
New York : Aldine de Gruyter, c1998.
Series
Social problems and social issues
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Fishman, Mark, 1947-
Cavender, Gray, 1947-
Research Call Number
MWGS 01-6741
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