Product Description: What is tabloid culture? How do tabloid media prompt debates about values and ethics? Can we respond positively to the ‘tabloidization’ of culture? What is so appealing about the rhetoric, attitude and posture of tabloid culture? Which theories and concepts can help us analyse and understand tabloid media? This wide-ranging and accessible Reader provides a useful introduction to the historical and contemporary debates about the values, ethics and pleasures of tabloid news, entertainment and culture...read more

This book analyses new and hybrid genres of television including observational documentaries, talk shows, game shows, docu-soaps, dramatic reconstructions, law and order programming and 24/7 formats such as Big Brother and Survivor.

Product Description: Anita Biressi examines the historical origins and development of true crime and its evolution into distinctive contemporary forms. Embracing a range of non-fiction accounts including true crime books and magazines, law and order television, and popular journalism, Biressi traces how they harness and explore current concerns about law and order, crime and punishment, and personal vulnerability...read more