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Article: Media whores and perverse media: documentary film meets tabloid TV in Nick Broomfield's Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer.
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- Velvet Light Trap
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- March 22, 2000
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A survey of recent literature on documentary film yields the rather confusing conclusion that the medium is simultaneously flourishing and experiencing a serious challenge to its continued existence. In the introduction to his 1994 book, Blurred Boundaries, Bill Nichols argues that a variety of emerging forms "ranging from reality TV to how-to publishing" suggests a deep-seated cultural "hunger for information about the world surrounding us" (ix). In his 1993 book, Theorizing Documentary, Michael Renov points out the "increasingly dominant position of nonfiction television in the current marketplace" (5). And Paul Arthur, writing in the January 1998 issue of Film Comment, ...
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