Tomboys, Pretty Boys and Outpoken Women: The Media Revolution of 1973

by EdwardD.Miller (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2011

  $93.69

  Contemporary American media is awash with reality programs, faux documentaries, and user generated content. When did this fixation on real or feigned nonfictionality begin? This argues that its origins can be found in the early 1970s, when American media discovered the entertainment value of documentaries, news programming, and other non-fiction forms.