The Global Village Revisited

Kathleen Dixon

doi:10.5771/9780739140789

Summary

Cultural studies scholarship on the television talk show, especially the 'audience discussion' genre, was guardedly hopeful about its democratic or feminist potential. In this exciting new volume, Kathleen Dixon investigates the relationship between the talk genre and democracy, but through a new emphasis on art, broadly defined. The Global Village Revisited: Art, Politics, and Television Talk Shows explores three case studies from Belgium, Bulgaria, and the United States, and reveals how these cases interanimate to produces a new view of the talk show as a global phenomenon, and as a negotiation among the forces of late capitalism, the unnamed but still palpable audience, and the individual rhetors, artists, and technicians who make the shows. Dixon treats the globalization of media and culture as a dynamic process that yields different results according to time and place. While the way in which television talk shows serve democracy may be hard to define precisely, The Global Village Revisited demonstrates the importance and necessity of this question in cultural studies.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2009
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-2340-9
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-4078-9
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 134
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
CHAPTER ONE: Introduction No access Pages 1 - 26
CHAPTER TWO: Jan Publiek of Belgium: Flemish Finale No access Pages 27 - 62
CHAPTER THREE: Showto Na Slavi of Bulgaria: Vox Populi No access Pages 63 - 84
CHAPTER FOUR: The Oprah Winfrey Show of the United States: Melodramatic Citizen No access Pages 85 - 108
CHAPTER FIVE: Conclusion No access Pages 109 - 118
Works Cited No access Pages 119 - 126
Index No access Pages 127 - 134