Media Scandals: Morality and Desire in the Popular Culture Marketplace / Edition 1

by James Lull, Stephen Hinerman

Overview

Are scandals a form of legitimate journalism, or are they a sign of a society in moral degeneration? These questions are addressed and assessed in Media Scandals, the first book to take a comprehensive look at how scandals are produced and played out in modern culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231111652
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	12/16/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	6.04(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

James Lull is professor of communication studies at San Jose State University.

Stephen Hinerman is lecturer in communication studies at San Jose State University.

Table of Contents

Editors.

List of Contributors.

1. The Search for Scandal: James Lull and Stephen Hinerman.

2. Scandal and Social Theory: John B. Thompson.

3."And Besides, the Wench is Dead": Media Scandals and the Globalization of Communication: John Tomlinson.

4. Anxiety, Desire, and Conflict in the American Racial Imagination: Herman Gray.

5. What a Story! Understanding the Audience for Scandal: S. Elizabeth Bird.

6. Character, Celebrity, and Sexual Innuendo in the Mass-Mediated Presidency: Bruce E. Gronbeck.

7. (Don't) Leave Me Alone: Tabloid Narrative and the Michael Jackson Child Abuse Scandal: Stephen Hinerman.

8. Producing Trash, Class, and the Money Shot: A Behind the Scenes Account of Daytime TV Talkshows: Laura Grindstaff.

9. Apollo Undone: The Sports Scandal: David Rowe.

10. Church, Media, and Scandal: Paul A. Soukup.

11. Pushin' it to the Limit: Scandals and Pop Music: Javier Santiago-Lucerna.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

Lull and Hinerman's volume ambitiously sets out to chart the terrain of media scandals, from their history and defining characteristics to their cultural consequences.

Rhetoric and Public Affairs - Bethami A. Dobkin

Lull and Hinerman's volume ambitiously sets out to chart the terrain of media scandals, from their history and defining characteristics to their cultural consequences.

— Bethami A. Dobkin, University of San Deigo

Rhetoric and Public Affairs

"An impressive array of international authors examines "mediated scandals" in a variety of contexts, including the political, the sporting and the religious, and across a number of media forms such as the talk-show, the tabloid and the pop song. This volume should feed, and fuel, the escalating debates about the shifting balance between the "private" and the "public", the demise of traditional centres of moral value and the complex roles that media play in shaping our ethical universe." Professor Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi, Centre for the Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester

"Perceptive." The Independent

"This is a book to be recommended. It is an interesting collection of essays bringing a variety of disciplinary perspectives, from both Britain and the United States, to bear on the question of scandal." The Times Higher Education Supplement

"The right book at the right time ... an important collection of essays." European Journal of Cultural Studies

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