Television talk shows
Subtitle: discourse, performance, spectacle
By: edited by Andrew Tolson.
Contributors: Tolson, Andrew.
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Mahwah, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: Talk shows -- United States.; Talk shows -- Great Britain.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-198) and index.
Table of contents: title: Talking about talk : the academic debates / Andrew Tolson; title: Performing talk / Louanne Haarman; title: "No YOU rioted!" : the pursuit of conflict in the  management of "lay" and "expert" discourses on Kilroy / Helen Wood; title: The many faces of With Meni : the history and stories of one Israeli talk show / Shoshana Blum-Kulka; title: "Has it ever happened to you?" : talk shows as mediated performance / Joanna Thornborrow; title: "It makes it okay to cry" : two types of "therapy talk" in TV talk shows / Raina Brunvatne and Andrew Tolson; title: Confrontation as spectacle : the argumentative frame of the Ricki Lake show / Ian Hutchby; title: "I'm out of it, you guys argue" : making an issue of it on the Jerry Springer show / Greg Myers.