This paper contends that the EID is not a window into reality but a . By examining the genre’s formal strategies, we can see how the entertainment industry uses documentary credibility to obscure labor conditions, neutralize criticism, and manufacture nostalgia as a forward-looking business strategy.

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: The victims—many of whom were young college students—were deceived about how the footage would be distributed. They were falsely promised that the videos would only be sold as DVDs in remote, international markets and never posted online.

Focuses on agents, managers, executives, and struggling artists.