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'This critical analysis of media industry practice investigates the relationship between confessional television and our modern understanding of culture and identity. Is our fascination with the personal our only meaningful response to the complexity of our own lives?' Voice of the Listener and Viewer Bulletin'Jon Dovey's book is a timely and much needed theoretical analysis of carefully contrived first person media and analyses teh cahnging nature of factual television at the end of the twentieth century ... Freakshow places teh television of intimacy within cutlural context and importantly stresses that the televising of 'real life' and confessional discourse are an expression of broader political and economic changes in our social existence.' Intensities: the Journal of Cult Media'John Dovey's Freakshow is an extremely timely discussion of the extraordinary boom in 'reality TV' in recent years.'Joe Moran - American Studies Today

'A timely and much needed theoretical analysis of carefully contrived first person media and analyses the changing nature of factual television' -- Intensities: the Journal of Cult Media 'An extremely timely discussion of the extraordinary boom in reality TV in recent years' -- Joe Moran - American Studies Today

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Jon Dovey is a writer, producer and senior lecturer in Cultural and Media Studies at the University of the West of England. He is the editor of Fractal Dreams: New Media in Social Contact (Lawrence and Wishart, 1996) and Freakshow (Pluto Press, 2000).

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