Tabloid Culture by Kevin Glynn
Focuses on diverse theoretical sources and an unprecedented range of electronic and print media in order to analyse important aspects and key debates that have emerged around this phenomenon. Rejecting elitist dismissal of sensationalist media, this book traces the cultural currents and counter currents running through their forms and products.
“At last, a book that treats tabloidism seriously! Glynn’s multidimensional study— analytical, historical and theoretical—shows us how tabloid TV became the genre that reshaped the media environment of the 1980s and 1990sGlynn’s treatment of the phenomenon itself and of the controversies around it provide insights into contemporary media culture that we cannot ignore. No one who is interested in how changing notions of popular culture shape both the commercial and textual forms of contemporary media can afford to miss this book.”—John Fiske, author of Media Matters: Everyday Culture and Political Change
“This is a very smart book about aspects of contemporary media culture that have never been more visible nor more in need of rigorous analysis. Glynn goes beyond the simplistic demonization of tabloid television to specify both the genre’s form and its cultural ramifications.”—Jim Collins, author of Architectures of Excess: Cultural Life in the Age of Information
“This is a very smart book about aspects of contemporary media culture that have never been more visible nor more in need of rigorous analysis. Glynn goes beyond the simplistic demonization of tabloid television to specify both the genre’s form and its cultural ramifications.”—Jim Collins, author of Architectures of Excess: Cultural Life in the Age of Information
Kevin Glynn is Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780822325697 |
| ISBN 10 | 0822325691 |
| Title | Tabloid Culture |
| Author | Kevin Glynn |
| Series | Console-Ing Passions |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Year published | 2000-09-26 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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