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1. Laughing at the World: Schadenfreude, Social Identity, and American Media Culture

Description:: This project explores historical questions of televisual form and cultural production, centering on the proliferation of media texts that mobilize real-life misfortune as a form of entertainment in U.S. television and culture. Specifically, it examines how a variety of "reality" formats in contemporary television stage and exploit spectacles of failure,...
Keyword:: television, media, and schadenfreude
Subject:: Media, Technology and Society
Creator:: Amber Eliza Watts
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/11/2018
Date Modified:: 09/11/2018
Date Created:: 2008-05-12
Resource Type:: Dissertation