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A curmudgeon's canon: random thoughts on 'Summer Heights High', 'The Office' and other nasty pleasures
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A curmudgeon's canon: random thoughts on 'Summer Heights High', 'The Office' and other nasty pleasures
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- Title
- A curmudgeon's canon: random thoughts on 'Summer Heights High', 'The Office' and other nasty pleasures
- Author(s)
- McFarlane, Brian
- Abstract
- Brian McFarlane explores the realm of 'cringe television', a place where documentary techniques, egotistical characters and political incorrectness collide, and where we might learn more about ourselves than we're willing to confront.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Source
- Metro Magazine, no. 160 (2009), pp. 134-138
- Publication year
- 2009
- FOR Code(s)
- 1902 Film, Television and Digital Media; 2001 Communication and Media Studies
- Keyword(s)
- Australia; Australian television programs; Comedy; Cringe; Cringe television; Genres; Summer Heights High; Television programs; The Office
- Publisher
- Australian Teachers of Media
- ISSN
- 0312-2654
- Publisher URL
- http://www.metromagazine.com.au/
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2009. The published version is reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.
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