Andrew Tolson

Television talk shows : discourse, performance, spectacle / edited by Andrew Tolson. - 1st ed - Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001. - viii, 203 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-198) and index.

Talking about talk : the academic debates / Andrew Tolson -- Performing talk / Louanne Haarman -- "No YOU rioted!" : the pursuit of conflict in the management of "lay" and "expert" discourses on Kilroy / Helen Wood -- The many faces of With Meni : the history and stories of one Israeli talk show / Shoshana Blum-Kulka -- "Has it ever happened to you?" : talk shows as mediated performance / Joanna Thornborrow -- "It makes it okay to cry" : two types of "therapy talk" in TV talk shows / Raina Brunvatne and Andrew Tolson -- Confrontation as spectacle : the argumentative frame of the Ricki Lake show / Ian Hutchby -- "I'm out of it, you guys argue" : making an issue of it on the Jerry Springer show / Greg Myers.

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Television talk shows--United States.
Television talk shows--Great Britain.

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