Book Festival Review: Integrity a Cornerstone of This 'Reality Tv'

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THE presence of a television camera changes things. Which is why Dave Gorman, at the Book Festival on Sunday night, was keen to emphasise that his best-selling book, American Unchained, was more than a book-of-the-film.

We are both TV worshippers and TV cynics, he said, so we tend to assume every project that appears on TV was generated for that purpose, and that it is much less spontaneous than it looks. In this case, neither assumption was true. America Unchained began as a road trip then became a book; the one-man film team was a late addition and travelled with him on his terms.

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Book Festival Review: Integrity a Cornerstone of This 'Reality Tv'

Thus, when he arrived in the town of Independence, Oregon, in his Ford Torino on the day the town's historic famil...

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