Vulture Culture: The Politics And Pedagogy of Daytime Television Talk Shows (Counterpoints: Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing; Peter Lang
Published: October 31, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780820450117
Subjects: Television - General; United States; Social aspects; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Social Science; Television talk shows; Sociology; Television - History & Criticism; Mass Media - General; Popular Culture - General
First sentence: Vulture Culture is a project that has brought the three authors of this book together in an attempt to understand the wide appeal of the programs that everybody loves to hate: daytime television talk shows.
Description: "Vulture Culture presents a new and complex way of thinking about daytime television talk shows. Vulture culture is the process by which the media scavenge the personal narratives and popular discourses that make up everyday knowledge and commonsense and (re- )present them back to us as spectacle, entertainment, and information. This book explores these nuances through a probing analysis of the vast landscape of daytime television talk shows and their relation to important political, social, and economic problems. Using an approach that takes into account the multiple perspectives of political economy, cultural studies, and cultural pedagogy, Vulture Culture provides an in-depth and well-rounded examination of this mainstay of television and media culture."--Jacket.