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The Talking Cure - TV Talk Shows and Women (Paperback, New)
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The Talking Cure - TV Talk Shows and Women (Paperback, New)
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This text 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
programmes have recently surpassed soap operas as the most popular
daytime programming (Oprah with 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 television at its most
radical as they popularize feminist identity politics. Without
adopting an overly naive view of the benevolence of corporate
captialism, the author examines the tension between talk's feminist
politics and the television industry. In their need to appeal to
women and channel the female desires, the television institution
trades on sensation, stereotypes and fears in order to engender
product consumption. However, this genre is not a simple, one way
form of social interaction. The female audience complies and
resists in a complex give-and-take, and it is this relationship
which is discussed in this book.
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