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Entertaining crime : television reality programs / Mark Fishman and Gray Cavender, editors.
| Other author | Fishman, Mark, 1947- |
| Other author | Cavender, Gray, 1947- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Aldine de Gruyter, ©1998. |
| Description | viii, 218 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Social problems and social issues Social problems and social issues. ^A252175 |
| 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. |
| Local note | Little-310654--305131017638 |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 98011941 |
| ISBN | 0202306151 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 020230616X (pbk. : alk. paper) |