Television talk shows : discourse, performance, spectacle / edited by Andrew Tolson.
| Other author | Tolson, Andrew. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Mahwah, N.J. : Erlbaum, 2001. |
| Description | viii, 203 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Lea's communication series LEA's communication series. ^A331122 |
| Contents | Talking about talk : the academic debates / Andrew Tolson -- Performing talk / Louann 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 show 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 the Ricki Lake talk show / Ian Hutchby -- "I'm out of it, you guys argue" : making an issue of it on the Jerry Springer show / Greg Myers. |
| General note | "Four of the chapters were first presented as papers at a conference on 'Identity and Performance in Broadcast Talk' held in September 1998 at the Media Research Institute of the University of Stirling"--Introd. |
| General note | 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). |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-198) and index. |
| LCCN | 00059322 |
| ISBN | 0805837469 |