10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONFESSIONAL TELEVISION»
Discover the use of
confessional television in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
confessional television and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Freakshow: first person media and factual
television
Jon Dovey analyzes reality TV in terms of the political economy of the mass media. He investigates the relationship between confessional television and our modern understanding of culture and identity.
2
Modern
Confessional Writing: New Critical Essays
... confessional television' (Ahmed and Stacey 2001: I).1 Peter Brooks's recent
treatment of the subject opines that confession is 'deeply ingrained in our culture'
(2000: 2) and is to be found everywhere, though especially in the 'everyday ...
3
Visual Pedagogy: Media Cultures in and beyond the Classroom
... tapes like Kept Quiet is precisely this therapeutic potential to aid recovery.
However, Kept Quiet does veer from the conventions of confessional television in
at least one important way.Tapes such as this are not intended for a wide
audience.
4
Surveillance on Screen: Monitoring Contemporary Films and ...
During the early years of the 21st century, confessional television has become a
popular entertainment genre. In typical UK and US-based programmes hosted by
people like “Dr Phil,” individuals or families are filmed revealing their innermost ...
5
Television and Sexuality
Sherryl Wilson's (2003) work on talk shows helped to stimulate the interest in
confessional television that emerges in Chapter 4. Helen Kennedy's work on girl
gamers has kept me updated on the gendering of new media technologies and
their ...
6
The Sexual Politics of Time: Confession, Nostalgia, Memory
Recent conference literature refers to the continuing 'compulsion to confess' (
Ashplant andGraham 2001)andto the 'imperative to speak out ... evidentinpopular
culture ... such as confessional television' (Ahmed andStacey 2001:1).1 Peter ...
7
The Future of Broadcasting: A Report Presented to the Social ...
The disadvantage is that it could lead, as in Holland, to some kind of confessional
television, with believers talking only to believers, and viewers watching only
those programmes that fed their own prejudices. A second theory is that the
fourth ...
Social Morality Council,, 2013
8
Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American Culture
Unsolicited promotion perpetuates the Oprah brand at no cost to Harpo, Inc. What
might have begun as disdain for her particular brand of confessional television in
the 1980s has evolved into a mixture of reverence, fear, and conflicted ...
Trystan T. Cotten, Kimberly Springer, 2009
9
Celebrity, Pedophilia, and Ideology in American Culture
This, added to the developments in surveillance technology in the 1970s and the
immense popularity of confessional television shows, epitomized by the Oprah
show and its imitators in the 1980s and 1990s, led to the notion that all that is ...
10
Feminist Film Theorists: Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, ...
Confessional television and chat shows, forexample, thrive ontheexposure of
aberrant detailsin their participants' lives. Not onlyhave the mediataken
overtherole ofreligion in drawing the lines between the acceptable and the taboo,
they have ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONFESSIONAL TELEVISION»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
confessional television is used in the context of the following news items.
Stiff upper lip? No, we're all oversharers: How sob stories and …
Many have been influenced by seeing celebrities openly discuss their addictions or depression, confessional television such as The Jeremy ... «Daily Mail, Jun 14»
Sport: A teen dream for Banner as AP shows he's Real McCoy
It was Oprah Winfrey -- that queen of confessional television -- who finally extracted the truth from the tearful Texan, although his long-term ... «Irish Independent, Dec 13»
Filmmakers reveal magician's secretive world
Especially in the age of 'Oprah' and confessional television, viewers expect people to open up about their personal life at the drop of a hat, but ... «The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A., May 13»
Ros Reines tells Ajay Rochester, shape up or ship out
It is confessional television which sends a message that being fat is almost a crime. To date, Rochester's video has had 4,148 views. The only ... «The Daily Telegraph, May 13»
California appellate court expands common law right of privacy
... "[w]hile this restriction may have made sense in the 1890's - when no one dreamed of talk radio or confessional television - it certainly makes ... «Lexology, Apr 13»
Privacy Right Is Not Limited to Written Disclosures—CA
... Bedsworth wrote, “may have made sense in the 1890's – when no one dreamed of talk radio or confessional television – it certainly makes no ... «Metropolitan News-Enterprise, Mar 13»
The Iraqi Revolution Will Not Be Televised - But the Battered …
In this country we're well used to confessional television in the mould of The Wright Stuff or Trisha Goddard, but the variety that Iraqi viewers ... «Huffington Post UK, Mar 13»
Review: In the Republic of Happiness - Royal Court Theatre
... between a therapy session and a confessional television programme in which the unassigned lines of dialogue launch a scattergun attack on ... «TNT Magazine, Dec 12»
'Checkers,' With Anthony LaPaglia, at the Vineyard Theater
Though briskly paced and attractively packaged, “Checkers” (the name refers to the Nixons' cocker spaniel and the confessional television ... «New York Times, Nov 12»
Rack & Reel
Compare this with the behemoth of confessional television, Sach Ka Saamna (SKS), based on the American show Moment of Truth. In the past ... «Tehelka, Mar 12»
