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

Informationen zum Autor Kevin Glynn Klappentext "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" Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Glynn, Kevin Glynn, Kevin Glynn
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.09.2000
• EAN: 9780822325697
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2569-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Console-ing Passions; Console-Ing Passions: Televisi; Console-ing Passions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Nordamerika (USA und Kanada), Medienwissenschaften, Film-, Fernseh- und Radioindustrie