Pop (Up) goes the Blind Date: Supertextual constraints on "reality" television

Journal of Communication Inquiry

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 171-189

  DeRose, Justin ^a,b   Fürsich, Elfriede ^b   Haskins, Ekaterina V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dating shows; Hybrid genre; Polysemy; Television criticism; Textual analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746023892     PISSN: 01968599     EISSN: 15524612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0196859902250865     Document Type: Article

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