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Crime Watching: Investigating Real Crime TV
Deborah Jermyn
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Description for Crime Watching: Investigating Real Crime TV
Hardback. Looking at the social and political context of the period in which "Crimewatch UK" appeared and examining the aesthetics, address and appeal of a range of other shows appearing in its wake, this book investigates the conditions that have enabled the ubiquity of real crime programming on contemporary television and the anxieties that surround it. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; JKV. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 363.
In recent years, reality TV formats have proliferated on television. One of the most significant and controversial strands within this has been the growth of 'real crime TV'. Encapsulating everything from crime appeal shows to reconstruction programmes and actuality footage shows, real crime TV now plays a major role in our television schedules, filling countless hours of air-time every week. "Crime Watching" examines the spectacular growth of real crime TV. Of these programmes, the BBC's "Crimewatch UK" is Britain's best known (in small part due to the tragedy of presenter Jill Dando's death). The book argues that the birth of ... Read more
In recent years, reality TV formats have proliferated on television. One of the most significant and controversial strands within this has been the growth of 'real crime TV'. Encapsulating everything from crime appeal shows to reconstruction programmes and actuality footage shows, real crime TV now plays a major role in our television schedules, filling countless hours of air-time every week. "Crime Watching" examines the spectacular growth of real crime TV. Of these programmes, the BBC's "Crimewatch UK" is Britain's best known (in small part due to the tragedy of presenter Jill Dando's death). The book argues that the birth of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845112387
SKU
V9781845112387
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99-5
About Deborah Jermyn
Former New Scotland Yard Press Officer, now Senior Lecturer in Film and TV at Roehampton University. Co editor of 'The Audience Studies Reader' and 'Understanding Reality Television'.
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