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Stories of Oprah : the Oprahfication of American culture /

Stories of Oprah is a collection of essays that explores Oprah Winfrey's broad reach as an industry and media brand. Contributors analyze a number of topics touching on the ways in which her cultural output shapes contemporary America. The volume examines how Oprah has fashioned a persona?which...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cotten, Trystan T., 1968-, Springer, Kimberly, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.
Project MUSE - Archive American Studies Foundation.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : delineating the contours of the Oprah culture industry / Kimberly Springer
  • Oprah the woman, Oprah the empire. Beginnings with O / John Howard
  • "I'm everywoman" : Oprah Winfrey and feminist identification / Jennifer L. Rexroat
  • New age soul : the gendered translation of new age spirituality on The Oprah Winfrey show / Karlyn Crowley
  • Contesting the Oprah experts. Post(ed)structuralism? : Oprah's message boards, soul stories, and the everyday lives of women / Sherra Schick
  • Oprah para mujeres Chicanas : a survey of the impact of Oprah's message on Chicanas / Adriana Katzew and Lilia de Katzew
  • Confessions from at-risk teens : abstinence, the social construction of promiscuity, and The Oprah Winfrey show / Katherine Gregory
  • Oprah goes to Africa : philanthropic consumption and political (dis)engagement / Heather Laine Talley and Monica J. Casper
  • The Oprahfication of media. Oprah and the new news / Kathleen Dixon and Kacie Jossart
  • The Oprahfication of 9/11 : September 11, the war in Iraq, and The Oprah Winfrey show / Jaap Kooijman
  • From the Nobel to Oprah : Toni Morrison, body politics, and Oprah's book club / Edith Frampton
  • Lost in translation : irony and contradiction in Harpo's production of Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Trystan T. Cotten.