The Money Shot
Trash, Class, and the Making of TV Talk Shows

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
Pacific Sociological Association: Distinguished Scholarship Award
Won
ASA Culture Section: Mary Douglas Prize
Won
History: American History
Sociology: Sociology of Arts--Leisure, Sports
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