During the latter half of the 1980s and throughout the 1990s,
television talk shows, infotainment news, and screaming supermarket
headlines became ubiquitous in America as the "tabloidization" of
the nation's media took hold. In "Tabloid Culture" Kevin Glynn
draws on diverse theoretical sources and an unprecedented range of
electronic and print media in order to analyze important aspects
and key debates that have emerged around this phenomenon.
Glynn begins by situating these media shifts within the context of
Reaganism, which gave rise to distinctive ideological currents in
society and led the socially and economically disenfranchised to
access new forms of information via the exploding television
industry. He then tackles specific daytime talk shows and tabloid
newscasts such as "Jerry Springer "and "A Current Affair, "
reality-TV programs such as "Cops" and "America's Most Wanted," and
two different supermarket tabloids' coverage of the O.J. Simpson
case. "Tabloid Culture" is the first book to treat these diverse
yet related media forms and events in tandem. Rejecting the elitist
dismissal of sensationalist media, Glynn instead traces the
cultural currents and countercurrents running through their forms
and products. Locating both reactionary and oppositional meanings
in these texts, he demonstrates how these particular media genres
draw on and contribute to important cultural struggles over the
meanings of race, sexuality, gender, class, "normality," "truth,"
and "reality." The study ends by discussing how the growing use of
the Internet provides an entirely new realm in which such material
can circulate, distort, inform, and flourish.
This innovative and provocative study of contemporary mainstream
media culture in the United States will be valuable to those
interested in both print and television media, the
cultural-political influence of the Reagan era, and American
culture in general.
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