The talking cure : TV talk shows and women

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The talking cure : TV talk shows and women

Jane M. Shattuc

Routledge, c1997

  • : hc
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-236) and index

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Volume

: hc ISBN 9780415910873

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. These programs have recently surpassed soap operas as the most popular daytime programming (Oprah garnering 19 million viewers per show). They serve as one of the few public forums where women from the working class and with different sexual orientations have a voice. In many ways, these talk shows represent American TV at its most radical as they popularize feminist identity politics. Without adopting an overly naive view of the benevolence of corporate captialism, Jane Shattuc examines the tension between talk's feminist politics and the television industry.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780415910880

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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 TheTalking Cure aims to understand and reveal.

Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Chapter 2 Sobbing Sisters
  • Chapter 3 Talk is Cheap
  • Chapter 4 The "Oprahfication" of America?
  • Chapter 5 Freud vs. Women
  • Chapter 6 "Go Ricki"
  • Chapter 7 Conclusion

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