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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