The Talking Cure: TV Talk Shows and Women

The Talking Cure: TV Talk Shows and Women
ISBN-10
1136656790
ISBN-13
9781136656798
Series
The Talking Cure
Category
Art
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2014-04-04
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Jane M. Shattuc

Description

The Talking Cure examines four nationally syndicated television talk shows--Donahue, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Geraldo and Sally Jessy Raphael--which are primarily devoted to feminine culture and issues. Serving as one of the few public forums where working-class women and those with different sexual orientations have a voice, these talk shows represent American TV at its most radical. Shattuc examines the tension between talk's feminist politics and the television industry, who, in their need to appeal to women, trades on sensation, stereotypes and fears in order to engender product consumption. However, this genre is not a one-way form of social interaction. The female audience complies and resists in a complex give-and-take, and it is this relationship which The Talking Cure aims to understand and reveal.

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