Louis Theroux

Louis Theroux is a British-American broadcaster who is best known for his Gonzo Style Journalism. Gonzo journalism is a style of journalism written subjectively, it often includes the writer as part of the story. The style often uses personal experiences and emotions to provide context for the story or event being covered in the documentary. The gonzo style journalism looks past the product favoured by the newspapers and the media and looks for the more gritty real factor, common aspects would be Sarcasm, humour, quotes and exaggeration. During his early career he worked as a correspondent for Micheal Moore TV Nation series another famous film maker. once this job ended he was then singed by the BBC where Louis landed a job as the film maker of Louis Theroux's weird weekends. He used many forms in order to show his documentaries from, observation, to poetic and reflexive.

Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends was Louis first real job documenting on subcultures. He followed mostly American Subcultures such as Black Nationalists, Porn Stars and Survivalists and then documented on their beliefs. In order for Louis to access this information he lived amongst or close to the people involved in this subcultures and observed their way of living. There were Three Series to Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends each showing episodes on different subcultures Which people would not normally come into contact with or experience up close.

below is a short clip of Louis theroux during one of his documnetaries based around female body builders: