10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DOCU-SOAP»
Discover the use of
docu-soap in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
docu-soap and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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From Grierson to the
Docu-
soap: Breaking the Boundaries
Exploring a range of issues relating to the achievements of documentary film during past decades, this book also considers their prospects at the start of the new millennium.
John Izod, R. W. Kilborn, Matthew Hibberd, 2000
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Staging the Real: Factual TV Programming in the Age of Big ...
Before the arrival of the brasher, more playful reality game shows such as Big
Brother and Survivor, the form of actuality-based programming that had enjoyed
unexpected, if rather short-lived success was the docu-soap. This chapter
considers ...
3
Programming Reality: Perspectives on English-Canadian Television
30 In the case of the docu-soap, it appears that privacy no longer exists, as the
everyday actions and interactions of the participants are subjected to the public
gaze ofthe camera. The surveillance perspective of the docu-soap further blurs
the ...
Zoë Druick, Aspa Kotsopoulos, 2008
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Driving Spaces: A Cultural-Historical Geography of England's ...
M1 police patrols have been the subject of a 'docu-soap' television series, with
Carlton Television's Motorway following police officers patrolling the M1, M40, M6
and M42. In the wake of a new generation of 'docu-soaps' came a 'docu-soap' ...
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Odd Jobs: Unusual Ways to Earn a Living
This started with the 'docu-soap' - a new programme format that took the premise
of a documentary structure, but then followed specific storylines and characters in
order to keep the viewer's interest rather than telling one single story. One of ...
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Multicultural Dilemmas: Identity, Difference, Otherness
1 This is how the US Public Broadcasting System (PBS) advertises its new TV
product, a "docu-drama" or a "docu-soap," as some critics have labelled it. The
1900 House is another strain of the popular reality shows that have been
spreading ...
Wojciech Kalaga, Marzena Kubisz, 2008
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Ordinary Television: Analyzing Popular TV
The development of the docu-soap was one in which documentary television was
made more ordinary. The people followed were special only in as much as they
were being filmed going about their ordinary business for television. The sites in
...
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Media International Australia
industry. For broadcasters, such shows fulfilled a need to attract large audiences
and provide a cheap alternative to home-produced dramas (Mullholland, 1998).
The quick rise of the docu-soap in the United Kingdom (in particular, Driving ...
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Visual Methods in Social Research
While a British viewer of a British television docu-soap may be presumed to
utilize a high degree of passive cultural familiarity to make sense of what she is
seeing (though in fact such docu-soaps often contain a great deal of additional ...
... play far better than we ever could, who can do the "impossible" things that were
always beyond us, and all is entangled with the prevailing tendency to live our
lives via fictive narratives. Football as soap opera, or more accurately docu-soap.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DOCU-SOAP»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
docu-soap is used in the context of the following news items.
The Supreme Fabulettes are at it again
... with RuPaul's Drag Race star Courtney Act in the French Alps, and lest we forget starring in the gripping docu-soap Drag Queens of London. «So So Gay, Jul 15»
Will Tonight's MEERKAT MANOR Special Give Fans Flashbacks of …
MEERKAT MANOR, nature's greatest docu-soap, returns to Discovery Family Channel tonight with a new special—and an updated point of ... «TVRuckus, Jun 15»
“Meerkat Manor” returning (sort of)
Animal Planet's cute “docu-soap” hit from about a decade back, Meerkat Manor, is being packaged with reversioned footage from the first two ... «Channel Guide Magazine, May 15»
New Docuseries '3AM' to Premiere Thursday, May 28 on Showtime
... mix of genres ranging from docu-soap to documentary, serious fare to seriously funny, single-camera sitcoms to multi-camera melodramas, ... «TVbytheNumbers, May 15»
It's Official: Christina Milian Is Dating Lil Wayne
Outside of her singing career, Milian is mother to daughter Violet Madison, 5, and has her own "docu-soap" on E!, Christina Milian Turned Up. «People Magazine, May 15»
Watch: Big Ang reflects on 'live or die' cancer scare at brunch
Ang, the star of the Staten Island-based docu-soap "Mob Wives," was her old self at the event, greeting fans and calling out bingo numbers with ... «SILive.com, Apr 15»
Jane McDonald on getting old, her new role in Cats and life after …
The docu-soap featured life on cruise ships, with her in a central role as an onboard entertainer. But she nearly missed her big break after ... «mirror.co.uk, Apr 15»
Mob Wives Recap - Reunion Part 2: Season 5 episode 14
Tonight on VH1 their docu-soap series Mob Wives continues with an all new Wednesday March 18, season 5 episode 14 called “Reunion Part ... «Celebrity Dirty Laundry, Mar 15»
Ben Silverman Reveals How "The Office" Inspired His Local News …
Created by Ben Silverman, who has executive produced everything from The Office to The Biggest Loser, the humorous "docu-soap" debuting ... «Co.Create, Jan 15»
Realscreen 2015: key trends
Yesterday, Eli Lehrer, senior vice president and head of non-fiction at Lifetime, told Broadcast that the days of the derivative docu-soap were ... «Broadcast, Jan 15»
