Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: The Geneology of Tabloid Television
Chapter 2: Cops, Courts, and Criminal Justice: Evidence of
Postmodernity in Tabloid Culture
Chapter 3: Bodies of Popular Knowledge: The High, The Low, and A
Current Affair
Chapter 4: Fantastic Populism: A Walk on the Wild Side of Tabloid
Culture
Chapter 5: Normalization and Its Discontents: The Conflictual Space
of Daytime Talk Shows
Chapter 6: Conclusion: Cultural Struggle, The New News, and the
Politics of Popularity in the Age of Jesse “The Body” Vent
Appendix; TVQ Scores for Tabloid Programs by Demographic Audience
Category
An examination of the rise of tabloid television and the political, cultural, and technological changes that have enabled its success.
Kevin Glynn is Lecturer in American Studies at the University of
Canterbury in New Zealand.
"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 1990s. Glynn'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, University of Wisconsin, Madison 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." - Jim Collins
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