The money shot: trash, class, and the making of TV talk shows
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Main Author: Grindstaff, Laura (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press ©2002
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-299) and index
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
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 318 pages)
ISBN:0226309088
9780226309088
9780226309095

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