| |
| |
| Preface | |
| |
| |
| Acknowledgments | |
| |
| |
| |
| Packaging the Difference: Franchise Culture-The Search For Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe+High AnxietyA Method to the Madness | |
| |
| |
| |
| DifferentiationPassionate Consumption-Betcha Can+t Eat Just One+Death and the Market | |
| |
| |
| |
| Obsession (Not Just a Perfume)-Rat Man+Money and Culture | |
| |
| |
| |
| DeregulationEconologic: -The Luster of Capital+TV and the FCCThe Global Village or the New World Information Order? | |
| |
| |
| |
| Representing Difference(s)-Egad, It+s Plaid+Not a Pretty PictureCritical DifferencesAnita Hill | |
| |
| |
| |
| Beyond the Pleasure Principle of Television: TV Time, History, and Catastrophe | |
| |
| |
| |
| Shocking Thoughts-Jump Behavior+: Rene Thom-From Libido to Anxiety+: Sigmund Freud | |
| |
| |
| |
| Disastrous EventsBefore the Fall, After the Fall: Baby Jessica and Black MondayDeath, Shock, Art: Kennedy, Walter Benjamin, and Eternal FrameSublime Visions: The Challenger ExplosionDiaster StudiesSeeing Is Believing: -The Great Quake+Aerial Views: Operation Desert StormThe Machine That Killed Bad PeopleNuclear DisavowalCatastrophists | |
| |
| |
| |
| Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Gossip and ScandalSecret PleasuresFace-ism: -Women through Time+Trival Pursuits: Harping at Harper+s | |
| |
| |
| |
| Gossip TheoryScholars, Tourist, EcouteursLosing It: Roseanne and OprahTaking Things Literately: Patricia SpacksA Cry in the Dark | |
| |
| |
| |
| Gossip Law | |
| |
| |
| |
| Gossip and the MarketWomen and the National EnquirerIdle Chatter: Syndication and Tabloid TalkLoose Talk: Oprah, Geraldo, and PhilAny Woman+s BluesShady Relatives: Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker | |
| |
| |
| |
| Theorizing AffectIt+s a sinA Sexual Detour to Twin PeaksFall from Grace and Narrative AbsolutionKeeping Secrets | |
| |
| |
| |
| Calculating Difference: The Body and AgeThe Cultured BodyThe LoverNot a Jealous BoneThe Disciplined Body | |
| |
| |
| |
| Obsessive Subjects: RenifleursWomen+s Bodies | |
| |
| |
| |
| Aging BodiesThe Young and the RestlessThe Life and Loves of a She-DevilMurder, She Wrote | |
| |
| |
| |
| Regime of Domiculture: Women and Situation Comedy | |
| |
| |
| |
| Gracie | |
| |
| |
| |
| Lucy | |
| |
| |
| |
| Jokes and Their Relation to TVRoseanneWho+s the Boss?Murphy Brown | |
| |
| |
| |
| Countercultures: Women+s Economies | |
| |
| |
| |
| Women+s Spaces/Women+s Work | |
| |
| |
| |
| Family TherapyRevising the Counterculture | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Seach for Signs of Intelligent Life | |
| |
| |
| Epilogue: The Condensed Version | |
| |
| |
| Notes | |
| |
| |
| Index | |