Here come my 600-pound quintuplets: a discussion of reality television as a freak discourse

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  • who: Sandra Pitcher from the (UNIVERSITY) have published the Article: Here Come My 600-Pound Quintuplets: A Discussion of Reality Television as a Freak Discourse, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)

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    Other contemporary work has hinted at how television in the form of talk shows (see Dennett, 1996) and medical documentaries (see Clark and amp; Myser, 1996) contain aspects of freak discourse, but none have gone so far as to directly link their studies to how these discourses have revitalised the conventional 19th century freak show into 21st century reality television. I argue in . . .

     

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