Laura Grindstaff
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TRASHY OR TRANSGRESSIVE? 'REALITY TV' AND THE POLITICS OF SOCIAL CONTROL
--http://proxy.arts.uci.edu/~nideffer/Tvc/section3/11.Tvc.v9.sect3.Grindstaff.html by Laura Grindstaff
"Trash TV," "confrontainment," "dirty minded teleporn," "cultural junk food"--there's a new breed of TV out there and the old guard doesn't like it a bit. Cheap to produce and popular enough to play the ratings game, Trash TV covers a broad range of contemporary "reality-based" television fare including police and emergency rescue shows, the syndicated tabloid newsmagazines, daytime talkshows, and programs like I Witness Video and America's Funniest Home Videos. The idea is simple: make "real life" incidents as dramatic and entertaining as possible. --http://proxy.arts.uci.edu/~nideffer/Tvc/section3/11.Tvc.v9.sect3.Grindstaff.html [2004]
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