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Author : Biressi, Anita
Release : 2007-12-01
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 314/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Tabloid Culture Reader by : Biressi, Anita
Download or read book The Tabloid Culture Reader written by Biressi, Anita. This book was released on 2007-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tabloid Culture Reader provides an accessible and useful introduction to the field.
Author : Kevin Glynn
Release : 2000
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 697/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Tabloid Culture by : Kevin Glynn
Download or read book Tabloid Culture written by Kevin Glynn. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the rise of tabloid television and the political, cultural, and technological changes that have enabled its success.
Author : Graeme Turner
Release : 2010
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 670/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ordinary People and the Media by : Graeme Turner
Download or read book Ordinary People and the Media written by Graeme Turner. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'demotic turn' is a term coined by Graeme Turner to describe the increasing visibility of the 'ordinary person' in the media today. In this dynamic and insightful book he explores the 'whys' and 'hows' of the 'everyday' individual's willingness to turn themselves into media content through: · Celebrity culture, · Reality TV, · DIY websites, · Talk radio, · User-generated materials online. Initially proposed in order to analyse the pervasiveness of celebrity culture, this book further develops the idea of the demotic turn as a means of examining the common elements in a range of 'hot spots' in debates within media and cultural studies today. Refuting the proposition that the demotic turn necessarily carries with it a democratising politics, this book examines the political and cultural function of the demotic turn in media production and consumption across the fields of reality TV, print and electronic news and current affairs journalism, citizen and online journalism, talk radio, and user-generated content online. It examines these fields in order to outline a structural shift in what the western media has been doing lately, and to suggest that these media activities represent something much more fundamental than contemporary media fashion.
Author : S. Elizabeth Bird
Release : 1992
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 292/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis For Enquiring Minds by : S. Elizabeth Bird
Download or read book For Enquiring Minds written by S. Elizabeth Bird. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of people read weekly supermarket tabloids. Yet little serious effort has been made to understand why so many Americans make a valued place for these papers in their lives. Instead, the tabloids are dismissed as the epitome of "trash"--sensational, gossipy, stereotyped, ephemeral. Libraries shun them. As the papers are "trashed" by critics, so by extension are their largely working-class readers, who are viewed as unworthy of consideration. This book, the first full-length analysis of the tabloids within their historical and cultural contexts, examines the interplay among tabloid writer, text, and audience. Drawing on anthropology, communications, folklore, and literary theory, Elizabeth Bird argues that tabloids are successful because they build on and feed existing narrative traditions, much as folklore does. Men and women, to judge from letters and interviews, read the tabloids from different perspectives. And while people buy the papers for various reasons, readers tend to be alienated from some aspects of the dominant culture. The tabloids are popular precisely for the reasons they are despised: formulaic yet titillating, they celebrate excess and ordinariness at the same time. After beckoning readers into a world where life is dangerous and exciting, the tabloids soothe them with assurances that, be it ever so humble, there is no place like home. Thus, while readers are active, playful consumers, we cannot assume that the papers offer a real opportunity to resist cultural subordination.
Author : Paula E Morton
Release : 2009-05-31
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 943/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Tabloid Valley by : Paula E Morton
Download or read book Tabloid Valley written by Paula E Morton. This book was released on 2009-05-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With sensational headlines and scandalous photos, supermarket tabloids dish out the dirt on everyone and everything from space aliens and Bat Boy to Elvis and Britney. Although they were once the pariah of traditional journalism, tabloids have gained credibility in recent years and today their lurid style--and sometimes their reportage--is even imitated by mainstream news outlets. In Tabloid Valley, Paula Morton explores the cultural impact of the sensationalist press over the years, focusing on Generoso Pope Jr.'s decision in 1971 to move the editorial offices of the National Enquirer from New Jersey to Florida. This bold step initiated a mass exodus of similar publications to the Sunshine State where six of the largest circulation weeklies--the Star, the Globe, the Weekly World News, the Sun, the National Examiner, and the Enquirer--were eventually consolidated under a single owner, American Media, Inc. Florida's favorable business climate and a booming southern frontier created the perfect environment for the tabloids and their writers to flourish. Morton goes behind the scenes to examine every facet of modern yellow journalism: what headlines sell and why, how the journalists gather the news, the recent and ongoing downturn in circulation, what the tabloids are doing to maintain their foothold, and, most important, what the tabloid news says about American culture.
