Media scandals
Subtitle: morality and desire in the popular culture marketplace
By: edited by James Lull and Stephen Hinerman.
Contributors: Lull, James.; Hinerman, Stephen.
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Scandals in mass media.; Mass media and culture.; Mass media -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The search for scandal / James Lull and Stephen Hinerman; title: Scandal and social theory / John B. Thompson; title: "And besides, the wench is dead...", media scandals and the globalization of communication / John Tomlinson; title: Anxiety, desire, and conflict in the American racial imagination / Herman Gray; title: What a story! / S. Elizabeth Bird; title: Character, celebrity, and sexual innuendo in the mass-mediated presidency / Bruce Gronbeck; title: (Don't) leave me alone, tabloid narrative and the Michael Jackson child abuse scandal / Stephen Hinerman; title: Producing trash, class, and the money shot / Laura Grindstaff; title: Apollo undone, the sports scandals / David Rowe; title: Church, media, and scandal / Paul A. Soukup; title: Pushin ̕ it to the limit / Javier Santiago-Lucerna.