10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CAR-CRASH TV»
Discover the use of
car-crash TV in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
car-crash TV and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Factual
TV: Audiences and News, Documentary and Reality Genres
... themselves for watching it. There is a game-like quality to trashing reality TV.
Viewers delight in coming up with different negative associations: 'car crash TV', '
tabloid TV', 'lowest of the low', 'brain dead TV', 'pastiche TV', 'prostitution ...
2
Fatal
Car Accidents of the Rich and Famous
This phenomenon is surely the origin of phrases like 'car crash TV', or when
something is described as, 'like a car accident', due to how horrible it is to look at.
Matters of Mortality Others are gripped by sheer nosiness, with the need to be 'in
...
3
Reality
TV: Realism and Revelation
Dunckley has gone as far as to assert that the popularisation of reality TV 'has all
the attractions of bear-baiting, the stocks and public hanging' (2002: 46); others
have referred to it scathingly as 'car crash TV'. More broadly, the perception has ...
Anita Biressi, Heather Nunn, 2013
4
Narrating Media History
... BBC culture and 125–6, 127, 130–31; 'car-crash TV,' conception of 125, 135;
case study, Norman Wisdom script 132–3; censorship and regulation 128;
debate surrounding 131; dramatics on camera 133–6; generic hybrid 134;
human face, ...
... glamor model-turned-pop signer Samantha Fox stranded haplessly at the
podium as the show turned into "car crash" TV, replete with technical failures,
botched lines, miscued presenters and late-arriving guests. Unsurprisingly, the
BPI has ...
6
The Tabloid Culture Reader
'Car crash TV' came up in several reviews. I always felt it was over the top, such
an obvious example of journalese. In Reality TV, viewers are not peering at death
and mayhem: they are merely watching how people behave behind closed ...
Biressi, Anita, Nunn, Heather, 2007
The abiding appeal of Diana's tragic story— Miranda had once described it as a
Cinderella story that ended as car crash TV— fulfilled the archetypal needs of a
modern mythology: a symbolic narrative expressing the dreams and desires of a
...
8
Totally Wired: The Wild Rise and Crazy Fall of the First ...
Everybody's got their broadcast station. Which is what Josh played with — that
two-way street on the broadcast station. I'm carrying on that work.' He thinks the
likes of me view these shows as humiliating car-crash TV, when they're
something ...
9
Self Made Me: Why Being Self-Employed beats Everyday Employment
... iswhat youare paid for.You are nothereas abusiness consultant, you are here
to entertain. These enterprises are not your customers, the viewers are,and they
wantto see yougive it to them right between the eyes, car crash TV. So remember
...
10
Latin Lessons: How South America Stopped Listening to the ...
It's car-crash TV, but with an entire country at stake. But there is something very
significant too about the whole notion of governing by television. Perhaps more
than any other president in the world, Chávez really understands the power of the
...
8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CAR-CRASH TV»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
car-crash TV is used in the context of the following news items.
Widnes Vikings face stiff test at Castleford
He added “It's car-crash TV. The TV is our paymaster and we need to create excitement. “Hopefully everybody stays excited, everybody fights ... «Liverpool Echo, Jul 15»
Jesus is Not Dead! 'The Fosters' to Recast Role
Last season, "The Fosters" ended with a cliffhanging car-crash TV sequence that led many viewers to ask: Did Jesus die for this scene? «iSchoolGuide, Jun 15»
Ryan O'Neal's daughter joins the greatest TV gaffes of all time
The Late Late Show, last Friday, was car-crash TV at its most jarring. The 70s Hollywood heart-throb Ryan O'Neal was the guest, and as host ... «Irish Independent, Mar 15»
Celebrity Big Brother really is car-crash TV
So yes, it has been compulsive viewing from the word go, in a car-crash TV kind of way. And what a charmless, humourless, tasteless bunch ... «Belfast Telegraph, Jan 15»
Nightcrawler: in search of car-crash TV
There is something about car crashes and violent incidents that brings out the morbid curiosity in the best of us. Many of us will have slowly ... «Spiked, Nov 14»
Bogan Hunters is car-crash TV says creator Paul Fenech
Australian TV went the full bogan on Tuesday night – and we're not talking about the federal budget, though there was a certain serendipity in ... «Sydney Morning Herald, May 14»
Celebrity Super Spa: Our new favourite reality show, or car-crash TV …
Disappointed that Celebrity Big Brother is coming to an end? Well there's no need to be. Because as one celebrity-reality door closes, ... «Metro, Sep 13»
Car-crash TV — Bob Servant creator describes shock at US …
Bob Servant creator Neil Forsyth has told how he nearly drove off a Los Angeles road after finding out his sitcom idea had been picked up by a ... «The Courier, Aug 13»
