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   Coming after Oprah: Cultural Fallout in the Age of the TV Talk Show » Read Now

   by Vicki Abt, Leonard Mustazza. 205 pgs.

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   Hot Air: All Talk, All the Time (Chap. 3 "Daytime Dysfuntion") » Read Now

   by Howard Kurtz. 423 pgs.

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   WASHINGTON POST media critic Howard Kurtz presents an eye-opening exploration of the new talk show culture, where a sharp tongue and the ability to shock has replaced insight and substance, and where celebrity reporters and commentators have become bigger than the stories they report.
   
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   TV Genres: A Handbook and Reference Guide (Chap. 16 "The Talk Show") » Read Now

   by Brian G. Rose, Robert S. Alley. 456 pgs.

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   "This book fills a need. It will be used by scholars and revered by undergraduates doing papers. It is a highly desirable acquisition for libraries of all types." Choice "[an] essential purchase for universityand most college libraries as well as large public libraries." Reference Books Bulletin
   
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   Daytime Television Talk Shows and the Cultivation Effect among U.S. and International Students, in Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media » Read Now

   by Hyung-Jin Woo, Joseph R. Dominick. 17 pgs.

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   ...Daytime television talk shows and the cultivation effect among...heavy viewers of daytime television talk shows might be more apt to hold distorted...sensationalistic...
   
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   Feminist Television Criticism: A Reader (Chap. 7 "Empowering Women? The Oprah Winfrey Show") » Read Now

   by Charlotte Brunsdon, Julie P. D'Acci. 388 pgs.

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   PART I: Housewives, Heroines, Feminists 1. Everyday Life, Michelle Mattelart 2. The Search for Tomorrow in Today's Soap Operas, Tania Modleski 3. Affirmation and Denial: Construction of Feminity on Indian Television (excerpts), Prabha Krishnan and Anita Digh 4. Roseanne: Unruly Woman as...

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   PART I: Housewives, Heroines, Feminists 1. Everyday Life, Michelle Mattelart 2. The Search for Tomorrow in Today's Soap Operas, Tania Modleski 3. Affirmation and Denial: Construction of Feminity on Indian Television (excerpts), Prabha Krishnan and Anita Digh 4. Roseanne: Unruly Woman as Domestic Goddess, Kathleen Rowe 5. L.A. Law and Prime-Time Feminism, Judith Mayne 6. Empowering Women? The Oprah Winfrey Show, Corrine Squire 7. Identity in Feminist Television Criticism, Charlotte Brunsdon 8. New Traditionalism and Post-Feminism: TV Does the Home, Elspeth Probyn PART TWO: Audiences and Reception Contexts 9. Women's Genres, Annette Kuhn 10. Melodramatic Identifications: Television Fiction and Women's Fantasy, Ien Ang 11. Black Feminism and Media Criticism: The Women of Brewster Place, Jacqeline Bobo and Ellen Seiter 12. In Love with Inspecter Morse, Lyn Thomas 13. Fruitful Investigations: The Case of the Successful Lesbian Text, Hilary Hinds 14. the Suburban Home Companion: Television and the Neighborhood Ideal in Postwar America, Lynn Spigel 15. Behind Closed Doors: Video Recorders in the Home, Ann Gray PART THREE: Private Bodies, Public Figures 16. Television Tales and a Woman's Rage: A Nationalist Recasting of Draupidi's Disrobing, Purnima Mankekar 17. Abortion Discourse and 1970s Television Documentary, Julie D'Acci 18. The Ideology of Freshness in Feminine Hygiene Commericials, Kate Kane 19. Never Trust a Big Butt and a Smile, Tricia Rose 20. The Gorgeous Lesbian in L.A. Law: The Present Absence?, Rosanne Kennedy 21. Reproducing Reality: Murphy Brown and Illegitimate Politics, Rebecca Walkowitz 22. Representation Wars: Malaysia, Embassy, and Australia's Corps Diplomatique, Suvendrini Perera

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   The Oprahization of America: Sympathetic Crime Talk and Leniency, in Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media » Read Now

   by John R. Hill, Dolf Zillmann. 15 pgs.

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   ...More than the hosts of competing talk shows, Oprah Winfrey shows profound sympathy...selected programs, the consumption of talk-shows of the Oprah variety -- that...
   
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   Pulp Pulpits: Self-Disclosure on "Donahue", in Journal of Communication » Read Now

   by Patricia Joyner Priest, Joseph R. Dominick. 24 pgs.

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   ...viewing. They held a pragmatic view of talk shows as avenues to reach a dual audience...violate one of the cardinal "rules" of talk shows -- to "tell all," no matter how...
   
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   The Nature of Close Relationships as Presented in Television Talk Show Titles, in Communication Studies » Read Now

   by Sandi W. Smith, Monique M. Mitchell, James Ah Yun, Amy Janan Johnson, Victoria O. Orrego, Bradley S. Greenberg. 12 pgs.

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   ...exists about the value of television talk shows, there is an absence of empirical...of the eleven top-rated television talk shows and corresponding content from...
   
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   Youth, Murder, Spectacle: The Cultural Politics of "Youth in Crisis" (Chap. 6 "Crisis and Display: The Nature of Evidence on the Daytime Television Talk Show") » Read Now

   by Charles R. Acland. 176 pgs.

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   ...Aspects of the Daytime Talk Shows Evidential Procedures, 99...editorials to daytime television talk shows. As a series of texts and reponses...in particular daytime...
   
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    Effects of Talk Show Viewing on Adolescents, in Journal of Communication » Read Now

    by Stacy Davis, Marie-Louise Mares. 18 pgs.

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    ...hypotheses about the effects of viewing talk shows: (a) viewers overestimate the frequency...proliferation of daytime television talk shows. A decade ago there were only...