The Talking Cure: TV Talk Shows and Women,9780415910873

The Talking Cure: TV Talk Shows and Women

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ISBN13: 9780415910873
ISBN10: 0415910870
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1997-02-01
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

Shattuc exmaines four nationally syndicated television talk shows--Donohue, the Oprah Winfrey Show, Geraldo, and Sally Jessy Raphael--which are primarily devoted to feminine culture and issues to explore television's profit motive and the effects on the women who watch.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction
1(12)
The Terms of the Debate about Talk Shows
Sobbing Sisters
13(34)
The Evolution of Talk Shows
Talk is Cheap
47(38)
How the Industrial Production Process Constructs Femininity
The ``Oprahfication'' of America?
85(26)
Identity Politics and Public Sphere Debate
Freud vs. Women
111(26)
The Popularization of Therapy on Daytime Talk Shows
``Go Ricki''
137(34)
Politics, Perversion, and Pleasure in the 1990s
Conclusion
171(28)
The Inconclusive Audience
APPENDIX 199(8)
Talk Show Content (February 21-25, 1995)
Notes 207(20)
Bibliography 227(10)
Index 237

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