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Screening Michael Jackson's face : reading Martin Bashir's living with Michael Jackson
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.
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Southern review : Communication, politics & cultureVolume
37Issue
1Pagination
49 - 61Publisher
RMIT, School of Applied CommunicationLocation
Melbourne, Vic.ISSN
0038-4526Language
engPublication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal; C Journal articleCopyright notice
2004, Southern reviewUsage metrics
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