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Money Shot Trash, Class, and the Making of TV Talk Shows

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ISBN-10: 0226309118

ISBN-13: 9780226309118

Edition: 2002

Authors: Laura Grindstaff

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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.
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Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/12/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 325
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.90" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English

Acknowledgments
A Word about Names
The Principal Cast Prologue
Setting the Stage
Airing Dirty Laundry
The 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)
The Other Side of the Camera: Motives and Misgivings
Inside the Fun House
Will the Real Expert Please Stand Up?
Class, Trash, and Cultural Hierarchy Epilogue
Airing Another Kind of Dirty Laundry: Confessions of a Feminist Fieldworker
References
Index