For Enquiring Minds by S Elizabeth Bird
Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2001
Bird is not a former tabloid "insider," but an academic: assistant professor of humanities and anthropology at the University of Minnesota. She discusses tabloid history, beginning as far back as oral "folklore" and urban legends. She interviewed tabloid editors, writers, and readers for this book, and analyzes tabloid stories within the context of folklore theory. She claims that tabloid readers are savvier and better-educated than is assumed, that they "interact and contribute" to with what they read (through gossip and fantasy), and that working class readers (as much as upper class readers) realize that many tabloid stories are false or exaggerated. Released in 1992, by the University of Tennessee Press. An easy read, despite its academic author and publisher.
S. Elizabeth Bird is Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. She is author of For Enquiring Minds: A Cultural Study of Supermarket Tabloids and editor of Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Popular Culture.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780870497292 |
| ISBN 10 | 0870497294 |
| Title | For Enquiring Minds |
| Author | S Elizabeth Bird |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Tennessee Press |
| Year published | 1992-04-30 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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