Television talk shows : discourse, performance, spectacle
by
 
Tolson, Andrew.

Title
Television talk shows : discourse, performance, spectacle

Author
Tolson, Andrew.

ISBN
9780805837469

Publication Information
Mahwah, N.J. : Erlbaum, 2001.

Physical Description
p. cm.

General Note
"Four of the chapters were first presented as papers at a conference on "Identity and Performance in Broadcast Talk" held in September 1988 [sic] at the Media Research Institute of the University of Sterling"--Introd.
 
Includes studies of three American talk shows (Sally Jesse Raphael, Ricki Lake, and Jerry Springer), two British (Kilroy and Trisha), and one Israeli (With Meni).

Contents
Talking about talk : the academic debates / Andrew Tolson -- Performing talk / Louanne Haarman -- "No YOU rioted!" : the pursuit of conflict in the management of "lay" and "expert" discourses on Kilroy / Helen Wood -- The many faces of With Meni : the history and stories of an Israeli talk show / Shoshana Blum-Kulka -- "Has it ever happened to you?" : talk shows as mediated performance / Joanna Thornborrow -- "It makes it okay to cry" : two types of "therapy talk" in TV talk shows / Raina Brunvatne and Andrew Tolson -- Confrontation as spectacle : the argumentative frame of an American talk show / Ian Hutchby -- "I'm out of it, you guys argue" : making an issue of it on the Jerry Springer show / Greg Myers.

Subject Term
Talk shows -- United States.
 
Talk shows -- Great Britain.

Added Author
Tolson, Andrew.


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IIEMSAGeneral Books33168016065621791.456 T654T 20011