Tabloid culture : trash taste, popular power, and the transformation of American television / Kevin Glynn.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Glynn, Kevin, 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2000.
Series:Console-ing passions.
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Table of Contents:
  • The genealogy of tabloid television
  • Cops, courts, and criminal justice: evidence of postmodernity in tabloid culture
  • Bodies of popular knowledge: the high, the low, and A current affair
  • Fantastic populism: a walk on the wild side of tabloid culture
  • Normalization and its discontents: the conflictual space of daytime talk shows
  • Conclusion: cultural struggle, the new news, and the politics of popularity in the age of Jesse "the Body" Ventura.