Tabloid Culture - Trash Taste, Popular Power, and the Transformation of American Television

"This is a very smart book about aspects of contemporary media culture that have never been more visible nor more in need of rigorous analysis. Glynn goes beyond the simplistic demonization of tabloid television to specify both the genre's form and its cultural ramifications."--Jim Collins, author of "Architectures of Excess: Cultural Life in the Age of Information"

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: The Geneology of Tabloid Television

Chapter 2: Cops, Courts, and Criminal Justice: Evidence of Postmodernity in Tabloid Culture

Chapter 3: Bodies of Popular Knowledge: The High, The Low, and A Current Affair

Chapter 4: Fantastic Populism: A Walk on the Wild Side of Tabloid Culture

Chapter 5: Normalization and Its Discontents: The Conflictual Space of Daytime Talk Shows

Chapter 6: Conclusion: Cultural Struggle, The New News, and the Politics of Popularity in the Age of Jesse “The Body” Vent

Appendix; TVQ Scores for Tabloid Programs by Demographic Audience Category

About the author

Kevin Glynn is Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.

Summary

Focuses on diverse theoretical sources and an unprecedented range of electronic and print media in order to analyse important aspects and key debates that have emerged around this phenomenon. Rejecting elitist dismissal of sensationalist media, this book traces the cultural currents and counter currents running through their forms and products.

Product details

• Authors: Glynn, Kevin Glynn, Kevin Glynn
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.09.2000
• EAN: 9780822325505
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2550-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Illustrations: 35 illustrations, 10 tables
• Series: Console-ing Passions; Console-Ing Passions: Televisi; Console-ing Passions; Console-Ing Passions: Televisi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Nordamerika (USA und Kanada), Medienwissenschaften, Film-, Fernseh- und Radioindustrie