Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity

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University of Chicago Press, 1998年5月13日 - 288 頁
Using extensive interviews, hundreds of transcripts, focus-group discussions with viewers, and his own experiences as an audience member, Joshua Gamson argues that talk shows give much-needed, high-impact public visibility to sexual nonconformists while also exacerbating all sorts of political tensions among those becoming visible. With wit and passion, Freaks Talk Back illuminates the joys, dilemmas, and practicalities of media visibility.

"This entertaining, accessible, sobering discussion should make every viewer sit up and ponder the effects and possibilities of America's daily talk-fest with newly sharpened eyes."—Publishers Weekly

"Bold, witty. . . . There's a lot of empirical work behind this deceptively easy read, then, and it allows for the most sophisticated and complex analysis of talk shows yet."—Elayne Rapping, Women's Review of Books

"Funny, well-researched, fully theorized. . . . Engaged and humane scholarship. . . . A pretty inspiring example of what talking back to the mass media can be."—Jesse Berrett, Village Voice

"An extraordinarily well-researched volume, one of the most comprehensive studies of popular media to appear in this decade."—James Ledbetter, Newsday
 

內容

Why I Love Trash
2
The Monster with Two Heads
28
Truths Told in Lies
66
Sitting Ducks and Forbidden Fruits
106
I Want to Be Miss Understood
138
Flaunting It
170
The Tight Rope of Visibility
208
Methods
227
Notes
241
Works Cited
265
Index
277
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第 256 頁 - Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (New York: Praeger, 1966). 67. Willard B. Gatewood, Jr., "Arkansas Negroes in the 1890s: Documents," Arkansas Historical Quarterly 33 (Winter 1974): 307-8; Joan Perry Morris and Lee H.

關於作者 (1998)

Joshua Gamson is professor of sociology at the University of San Francisco. His research and teaching focus on the sociology of culture, with an emphasis on contemporary Western commercial culture and mass media; social movements, and on the history, theory, and sociology of sexuality. He lives in Oakland, California.

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