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Til Debt Do Us Part: Reality TV and the Financial Literacy Regulatory Project 直到债务把我们分开:真人秀电视和金融知识监管项目

Law and Justice on the Small Screen Pub Date : 2012-08-14 DOI: 10.5040/9781509955718.ch-010

Freya Kodar

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Prosecutors and Psychics on the Air: Does a ‘Psychic Detective Effect’ Exist? 检察官和灵媒:“灵媒侦探效应”存在吗?

Law and Justice on the Small Screen Pub Date : 2011-07-27 DOI: 10.5040/9781509955718.ch-008

C. Corcos

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Stranger Danger?: Sadistic Serial Killers on the Small Screen 陌生人危险吗?:小屏幕上的虐待狂连环杀手

Law and Justice on the Small Screen Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.5040/9781509955718.ch-021

Annette Houlihan

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Television Judges in Germany 德国的电视评委

Law and Justice on the Small Screen Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.5040/9781509955718.ch-012

S. Machura, P. Robson, Jessica M. Silbey

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Dark Justice: Women Legal Actors on Basic Cable 黑暗正义:基本有线电视的女性法律演员

Law and Justice on the Small Screen Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.5040/9781509955718.ch-006

T. L. Banks

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Judging Reality Television Judges 电视真人秀评委

Law and Justice on the Small Screen Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.5040/9781509955718.ch-011

Nancy S. Marder

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Bordering on Identity: How English Canadian Television Differentiates American and Canadian Styles of Justice 身份的边缘:加拿大英语电视如何区分美国和加拿大的司法风格

Law and Justice on the Small Screen Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.5040/9781509955718.ch-015

Ummni Khan

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Reality TV and the Entrapment of Predators 电视真人秀和捕食者的陷阱

Law and Justice on the Small Screen Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.5040/9781509955718.ch-014

M. Tunick

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Let’s See How Far We’ve Come: The Role of Empirical Methodology in Exploring Television Audiences 让我们看看我们已经走了多远:经验方法论在探索电视观众中的作用

Law and Justice on the Small Screen Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.5040/9781509955718.ch-005

Cassandra Sharp

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‘McNutty’ on the Small Screen: Improvised Legality and the Irish-American Cop in HBO’s The Wire 小银幕上的“麦克纳蒂”:HBO电视剧《火线》中的即兴合法性和爱尔兰裔美国警察

Law and Justice on the Small Screen Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.5040/9781509955718.ch-017

S. Ramshaw

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