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Absorbing, entertaining and keenly perceptive, Talking Trash illuminates the complex viewer response to daytime television talk shows and examines the cultural politics surrounding this wildly controversial popular phenomenon. When __The Phil Donahue Show__ topped the ratings in 1979, it ushered in a new era in daytime television. Mixing controversial social issues, light topics, and audience participation, it created a new genre, one that is still flourishing, despite being harshly criticized, over two decades later. Now, the daytime TV landscape is littered with talk shows. But why do people watch these shows? How do they make sense of them? And how do these shows affect their viewers' sense of what constitutes appropriate public debate? In **Talking Trash**, Julie Engel Manga offers a fascinating exploration of these questions and reveals the wide range of reasons viewers are drawn to “trash talk.” Focusing on such shows as __Oprah!, Jerry Springer, Ricki Lake, Jenny Jones__, and __Maury Povitch__, and drawing upon interviews with women who watch these shows, **Talking Trash** is the first examination of the talk show phenomenon from the viewers’ perspective. In taking this appr

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Author

Julie Engel Manga

Publisher

New York University Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814759974

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Sports, Literary Fiction