Research Catalog

Title

Media scandals : morality and desire in the popular culture marketplace / edited by James Lull and Stephen Hinerman.

Publication

Cambridge : Polity Press, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lull, James.
• Hinerman, Stephen.

Description

ix, 259 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Scandals in mass media
• Mass media and culture
• Mass media > Moral and ethical aspects

Note

• "First published in 1997 by Polity Press in association with Blackwell Publishers, Ltd."--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The search for scandal / James Lull and Stephen Hinerman -- Scandal and social theory / John B. Thompson -- "And besides, the wench is dead" : media scandals and the globalization of communication / John Tomlinson -- Anxiety, desire, and conflict in the American racial imagination / Herman Gray -- What a story!: understanding the audience for scandal / S. Elizabeth Bird -- Character, celebrity, and sexual innuendo in the mass-mediated presidency / Bruce E. Gronbeck -- (Don't) leave me alone : tabloid narrative and the Michael Jackson child-abuse scandal / Stephen Hinerman -- Producing trash, class, and the money shot : a behind-the-scenes account of daytime TV talk shows / Laura Grindstaff -- Apollo undone : the sports scandal / David Rowe -- Church, media, and scandal / Paul A. Soukup -- Pushin̕ it to the limit : scandals and pop music / Javier Santiago-Lucerna.

Call Number

JFE 98-1080

ISBN

• 0745618855
• 0745618863 (pbk.)

LCCN

97022261

OCLC

• 37187401
• 38419456

Title

Media scandals : morality and desire in the popular culture marketplace / edited by James Lull and Stephen Hinerman.

Imprint

Cambridge : Polity Press, 1997.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Lull, James.

Hinerman, Stephen.

Research Call Number

JFE 98-1080