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

Other author Tolson, Andrew.
Format Book
Publication InfoMahwah, N.J. : Erlbaum, 2001.
Descriptionviii, 203 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesLea'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 noteIncludes 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 193-198) and index.
LCCN 00059322
ISBN0805837469