Television Talk by Bernard M Timberg

Television Talk by Bernard M Timberg

Flip through the channels at any hour of the day or night, and a television talk show is almost certainly on. Whether it offers late-night entertainment with David Letterman, share-your-pain empathy with Oprah Winfrey, trash talk with Jerry Springer, or intellectual give-and-take with Bill Moyers, the talk show is one of television's most popular and enduring formats, with a history as old as the medium itself. Bernard Timberg here offers a comprehensive history of the first fifty years of television talk, replete with memorable moments from a wide range of classic talk shows, as well as many of today's most popular programs. Dividing the history into five eras, he shows how the evolution of the television talk show is connected to both broad patterns in American culture and the economic, regulatory, technological, and social history of the broadcasting industry. Robert Erler's A Guide to Television Talk complements the text with an extensive who's who listing of important people and programs in the history of television talk.

"Bernard Timberg's work on talk shows reminds us all of how intimately we have been connected to this delightfully complicated form of televisionIt is difficult to imagine America in the twenty-first century without the talk show, and now it is difficult to imagine the talk show without Timberg's rich historical perspective." - Horace Newcomb, editor of Encyclopedia of Television

Bernard M. Timberg is Associate Professor of Communication Arts at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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ISBN 13	9780292781764
ISBN 10	0292781768
Title	Television Talk
Author	Bernard M Timberg
Series	Texas Film And Media Studies Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Texas Press
Year published	2002-08-01
Number of pages	416
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