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Talking Trash - by Julie Manga (Paperback)

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  • When The Phil Donahue Show topped the ratings in 1979, it ushered in a new era in daytime television.
  • Author(s): Julie Manga
  • 255 Pages
  • Political Science, General

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About the Book



Absorbing, entertaining and keenly perceptive, Talking Trash illuminates the complex viewer response to daytime television talk shows and examines the cultural politics surrounding this wildly controversial popular phenomenon.



Book Synopsis



When The Phil Donahue Show topped the ratings in 1979, it ushered in a new era in daytime television. Mixing controversial social issues, light topics, and audience participation, it created a new genre, one that is still flourishing, despite being harshly criticized, over two decades later. Now, the daytime TV landscape is littered with talk shows. But why do people watch these shows? How do they make sense of them? And how do these shows affect their viewers' sense of what constitutes appropriate public debate?
In Talking Trash, Julie Engel Manga offers a fascinating exploration of these questions and reveals the wide range of reasons viewers are drawn to "trash talk." Focusing on such shows as Oprah!, Jerry Springer, Ricki Lake, Jenny Jones, and Maury Povitch, and drawing upon interviews with women who watch these shows, Talking Trash is the first examination of the talk show phenomenon from the viewers' perspective. In taking this approach, Manga is able to understand what talk shows mean to the women who watch them. And by refusing to judge either the shows or their viewers as good or bad, she is able to grasp how viewers relate to these shows-as escape, entertainment, uninhibited public discourse, or an accurate reflection of their own hardships and heartaches. Manga concludes that while the form of "trash-talk" shows may be relatively new, the socio-cultural experience they embody has been with us for a long time.
Absorbing, entertaining, and keenly perceptive, Talking Trash illuminates the complex viewer response to "trash talk" and examines the cultural politics surrounding this wildly controversial popular phenomenon.



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"A cogent analysis of our culture."-- "The Times"

"A wide-ranging exploration of some key theoretical issues in cultural sociology centering on subjectivity, sense-making, and cultural hierarchy."-- "Contemporary Sociology"

"An important contribution to our understanding of the talkshow genre and its cultural political function."-- "American Journal of Sociology"

"Provides a stunningly effective analysis of the diverse ways in which viewers make sense of the contentious culture of TV talk shows. The result is a first-rate sociological contribution to the study of popular culture, mass media, and public discourse. Attentive to both personal experience and complex vectors of power, Talking Trash involves a subtle and challenging interpretation of the transgressive lure, structural limitations, and utopian yearnings underlying this controversial realm of televisionary entertainment."--Stephen J. Pfohl, author of Images of Deviance and Social Control: A Sociological History
Dimensions (Overall): 9.18 Inches (H) x 6.02 Inches (W) x .66 Inches (D)
Weight: .82 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 255
Genre: Political Science
Sub-Genre: General
Publisher: New York University Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Julie Manga
Language: English
Street Date: January 1, 2003
TCIN: 94587050
UPC: 9780814756843
Item Number (DPCI): 247-41-0769
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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