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Media scandals : morality and desire in the popular culture marketplace

Title
Media scandals : morality and desire in the popular culture marketplace / edited by James Lull and Stephen Hinerman.
Publication
New York : Columbia University Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Lull, James.
  • Hinerman, Stephen.
Description
ix, 259 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Scandals in mass media
  • Mass media and culture
  • Mass media > Moral and ethical aspects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. The Search for Scandal / James Lull and Stephen Hinerman -- 2. Scandal and Social Theory / John B. Thompson -- 3. "And Besides, the Wench is Dead": Media Scandals and the Globalization of Communication / John Tomlinson -- 4. Anxiety, Desire, and Conflict in the American Racial Imagination / Herman Gray -- 5. What a Story! Understanding the Audience for Scandal / S. Elizabeth Bird -- 6. Character, Celebrity, and Sexual Innuendo in the Mass-Mediated Presidency / Bruce E. Gronbeck -- 7. (Don't) Leave Me Alone: Tabloid Narrative and the Michael Jackson Child-Abuse Scandal / Stephen Hinerman -- 8. Producing Trash, Class, and the Money Shot: A Behind-the-Scenes Account of Daytime TV Talk Shows / Laura Grindstaff -- 9. Apollo Undone: The Sports Scandal / David Rowe -- 10. Church, Media, and Scandal / Paul A. Soukup -- 11. Pushin' it to the Limit: Scandals and Pop Music / Javier Santiago-Lucerna.
ISBN
  • 0231111649
  • 0231111657 (pbk.)
LCCN
97022261
OCLC
  • 37187401
  • ocm37187401
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries