Premeditations of performance in recent live television: A scripting approach to media production studies

European Journal of Cultural Studies

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 421-440

  Ytreberg, Espen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Interactive TV; Liveness; Media production; Performance; Reality TV; Scripting

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751117520     PISSN: 13675494     EISSN: 14603551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1367549406069066     Document Type: Article

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