Ratings and reality: The persistence of the reality crime genre

Entertaining Crime: Television Reality Programs

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 59-76

  Fishman, Mark ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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