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Screening Michael Jackson's face : reading Martin Bashir's living with Michael Jackson

Toffoletti, Kim 2004, Screening Michael Jackson's face : reading Martin Bashir's living with Michael Jackson, Southern review : Communication, politics & culture, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 49-61.

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Title Screening Michael Jackson's face : reading Martin Bashir's living with Michael Jackson
Author(s) Toffoletti, Kim
Journal name Southern review : Communication, politics & culture
Volume number 37
Issue number 1
Start page 49
End page 61
Publisher RMIT, School of Applied Communication
Place of publication Melbourne, Vic.
Publication date 2004
ISSN 0038-4526
Keyword(s) media
criticism
news reporting
television programmes
Summary The screening of Martin Bashir's Living with Michael Jackson on Australian television elicited a phenomenal amount of interest in the news media, at water coolers and on the Internet. Much of the response in the Australian print media was critical of Bashir's representation of Jackson, as well as denouncing Jackson as sad victim, warped predator and allround freakshow. This article considers these interpretations to argue that the production and consumption of 'wacko Jacko' is underpinned by the increasing instability of the natural in an age of information technologies, as well as the collapse of boundaries between documentary and fictional entertainment forms.
Language eng
Field of Research 169901 Gender Specific Studies
HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
ERA Research output type C Journal article
Copyright notice ©2004, Southern review
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30013003

Document type: Journal Article
Collection: School of Social and International Studies
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