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Laura Grindstaff

The Money Shot

Trash, Class, and the Making of TV Talk Shows

325 pages, 8 halftones, 4 line drawings  6 x 9  © 2002

Cloth $70.00

ISBN: 9780226309095   Published July 2002

Paper $22.00

ISBN: 9780226309118   Published July 2002

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Acknowledgments
A Word about Names
The Principal Cast
Prologue. Setting the Stage
1. Airing Dirty Laundry
2. The Genre Goes Hard-Core: A Brief History of Talk Shows and the Money Shot
3. Talk as Work: Routinizing the Production Process
4. Talk as Show (a Show of Emotion)
5. The Other Side of the Camera: Motives and Misgivings
6. Inside the Fun House
7. Will the Real Expert Please Stand Up?
8. Class, Trash, and Cultural Hierarchy
Epilogue. Airing Another Kind of Dirty Laundry: Confessions of a Feminist Fieldworker
References
Index
Awards
  • Pacific Sociological Assoc. Distinguished Scholarship Award
  • Mary Douglas Prize
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