Gotta get Theroux this / Louis Theroux.
Publication details: London : Macmillan, 2019.Description: 394 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781509880386 (paperback)
- Subtitle on cover: My life and strange times in television
- Got to get Theroux this
- Theroux, Louis -- Biography
- Theroux, Louis -- Anecdotes
- Theroux, Louis
- Theroux, Louis
- Biographies
- Journalists -- Biography
- Journalists -- United Kingdom -- Biography
- Broadcasters -- United Kingdom -- Biography
- Journalists -- 20th century -- Biography
- Broadcasters -- Singapore -- Biography
- Broadcasters -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Documentary films -- Production and direction
- Documentary films -- Production and direction -- Biography
- Documentary films -- Production and direction
- Documentary television programs -- Production and direction -- Great Britain -- Anecdotes
- Documentary television programs -- Production and direction
- Television producers and directors
- Television producers and directors -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Journalists
- Television journalists -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Great Britain
- 070.195/092 23
- PN1992.4.T44 A3 2019
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 070.195 THE | Available | 070155 |
"My life and strange times in television." -- Cover.
In 1994 fledgling journalist Louis Theroux was given a one-off gig on Michael Moore's TV Nation, presenting a segment on apocalyptic religious sects. Gawky, socially awkward and totally unqualified, his first reaction to this exciting opportunity was panic. But he'd always been drawn to off-beat characters, so maybe his enthusiasm would carry the day. Or, you know, maybe it wouldn't... Gotta Get Theroux This, Louis takes the reader on a joyous journey from his anxiety-prone childhood to his unexpectedly successful career. Nervously accepting the BBC's offer of his own series, he went on to create an award-winning documentary style that has seen him immersed in the weird worlds of paranoid US militias and secretive pro-wrestlers, get under the skin of celebrities like Max Clifford and Chris Eubank and tackle gang culture in San Quentin prison, all the time wondering whether the same qualities that make him good at documentaries might also make him bad at life. As Louis woos his beautiful wife Nancy and learns how to be a father, he also dares to take on the powerful Church of Scientology. Just as challenging is the revelation that one of his old subjects, Jimmy Savile, was a secret sexual predator, prompting him to question our understanding of how evil takes place. Filled with wry observation and self-deprecating humour, this is Louis at his most insightful and honest best.
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