Policing through parody with Wellington Paranormal

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Title

Policing through parody with Wellington Paranormal

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Description

In late 2018, the New Zealand Police released a series of paranormal-themed road safety videos hosted by fictional Officers Minogue and O’Leary, the bumbling comic double act who helm the deadpan mockumentary series Wellington Paranormal (2018-). The Police’s appropriation of these explicitly parodic characters here, as well as in promotional and recruitment material, is highly unusual. This is because Wellington Paranormal deftly mimics the representational and rhetorical strategies by which...

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Research paper

Research format

Journal article

Date created

2019

Creator

Harrington, Erin

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10092/18146

Related subjects

Wellington Paranormal / New Zealand Police / Police Ten 7 / mockumentary / deadpan comedy / Language, communication and culture / Communication and media studies

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