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The money shot : trash, class, and the making of TV talk shows /

Grindstaff takes the reader behind the scenes of television talk shows. This study draws on interviews with producers and guests and asks what talk shows can tell us about mass media and what they reveal about American culture more generally.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grindstaff, Laura
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Word about names
  • Principal cast
  • Prologue : Setting the stage
  • Airing dirty laundry
  • Genre goes hard-core : a brief history of talk shows and the money shot
  • Talk as work : routinizing the production process
  • Talk as show (a show of emotion)
  • Other side of the camera : motives and misgivings
  • Inside the fun house
  • Will the real expert please stand up?
  • Trash, class, and cultural hierarchy
  • Epilogue : Airing another kind of dirty laundry : confessions of a feminist fieldworker.