The Money Shot - Trash, Class, and the Making of TV Talk Shows

AcknowledgmentsA Word about NamesThe Principal CastPrologue. Setting the Stage 1. Airing Dirty Laundry 2. The Genre Goes Hard-Core: A Brief History of Talk Shows and the Money Shot 3. Talk as Work: Routinizing the Production Process 4. Talk as Show (a Show of Emotion) 5. The Other Side of the Camera: Motives and Misgivings 6. Inside the Fun House 7. Will the Real Expert Please Stand Up? 8. Class, Trash, and Cultural HierarchyEpilogue. Airing Another Kind of Dirty Laundry: Confessions of a Feminist FieldworkerReferencesIndex

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Résumé

Grindstaff takes the reader behind the scenes of daytime television talk shows. This study draws on interviews with producers and guests and asks not just what talk shows can tell us about mass media, but also what they reveal about American culture more generally.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Laura Grindstaff, Grindstaff Laura
• Collaboration: University Of Chicago Press (Editeur)
• Edition: University Presses
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 12.07.2002
• EAN: 9780226309118
• ISBN: 978-0-226-30911-8
• Pages: 325
• Dimensions: 16 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Poids: 510 g
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Art > Photographie, cinéma, vidéo, TV; USA, Television, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, United States of America, USA, Social research & statistics, Social research and statistics