Talking with Television: Women, Talk Shows, and Modern Self-Reflexivity
Author:   Helen Wood
Publisher:   University of Illinois Press
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9780252076022


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   31 March 2009
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Helen Wood
Publisher:   University of Illinois Press
Imprint:   University of Illinois Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.367kg
ISBN:  

9780252076022


ISBN 10:   0252076028
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   31 March 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments   ix Transcription Conventions   xi Introduction   1 1. Talk Is Not So Cheap   13 2. Making Talk Talk in Media Studies   31 3. Daytime Talking   56 4. Method: Texts-in-Action   100 5. Talking about Daytime Talk   118 6. Talking Back: The Mediated Conversational Floor   147 7. Texts, Subjects, and Modern Self-Reflexivity   180 Conclusion: Media, Mechanics, and the Politics of Self-Reflexivity   199 Appendix: Biographies of the Women   211 Notes   215 Bibliography   223 Index   235

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""A rare product: a theoretically informed empirical study, using data in sophisticated ways to produce far-reaching insights into the practice of television viewing and the construction of gendered subjectivity. A significant contribution to sociology, media and cultural studies, and gender studies.""--Ann Gray, author of Research Practice for Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Methods and Lived Cultures


A rare product: a theoretically informed empirical study, using data in sophisticated ways to produce far-reaching insights into the practice of television viewing and the construction of gendered subjectivity. A significant contribution to sociology, media and cultural studies, and gender studies. Ann Gray, author of Research Practice for Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Methods and Lived Cultures


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Helen Wood is principal lecturer in media studies at De Montfort University in Leicester, England.

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