All Talk: The Talkshow in Media Culture (Culture And The Moving Image)

by Wayne Munson

Culture and the Moving Image

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Wayne Munson examines the talkshow as a cultural form whose curious productivity has become vital to America's image economy. As the very name suggests, the talkshow is both interpersonal exchange and mediated spectacle. Its range of topics defies classification: from the sensational and bizarre, to the conventional and the advisory, to politics and world affairs. Munson grapples with the sense and nonsense of the talkshow, particularly its audience participation and its construction of show more knowledge.This hybrid genre includes the news/talk ""magazine,"" celebrity chat, sports talk, psyc show less

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Wayne Munson
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Culture and the Moving Image
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Nonfiction
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791.44 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Movies, TV, Video Motion pictures, radio, television, podcasting Radio
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PN1990.9 .T34 .M86 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Broadcasting
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