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Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity

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Using extensive interviews, hundreds of transcripts, focus-group discussions with viewers, and his own experiences as an audience member, Joshua Gamson argues that talk shows give much-needed, high-impact public visibility to sexual nonconformists while also exacerbating all sorts of political tensions among those becoming visible. With wit and passion, Freaks Talk Back illuminates the joys, dilemmas, and practicalities of media visibility.

"This entertaining, accessible, sobering discussion should make every viewer sit up and ponder the effects and possibilities of America's daily talk-fest with newly sharpened eyes."—Publishers Weekly

"Bold, witty. . . . There's a lot of empirical work behind this deceptively easy read, then, and it allows for the most sophisticated and complex analysis of talk shows yet."—Elayne Rapping, Women's Review of Books

"Funny, well-researched, fully theorized. . . . Engaged and humane scholarship. . . . A pretty inspiring example of what talking back to the mass media can be."—Jesse Berrett, Village Voice

"An extraordinarily well-researched volume, one of the most comprehensive studies of popular media to appear in this decade."—James Ledbetter, Newsday
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Joshua Gamson is professor of sociology at the University of San Francisco. His research and teaching focus on the sociology of culture, with an emphasis on contemporary Western commercial culture and mass media; social movements, and on the history, theory, and sociology of sexuality. He lives in Oakland, California.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Chicago Press (May 15, 1999)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0226280659
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0226280653
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
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I was born and raised--a Scorpio, naturally--in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and then spent time in Israel, Boston, Berkeley, San Francisco, New Haven, New York City, and eventually landed back in the Bay Area. I went to college at Swarthmore, and got my PhD in Sociology from UC Berkeley; I taught at Yale University for nine years, and now I teach at University of San Francisco. I married Richard Knight in 2004, and we have two kids, Reba Sadie (b. 2006) and Madeleine Blanche (b. 2009). www.joshuagamson.com

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  • ghj
    5.0 out of 5 stars an excellent intervention in television studies
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    an excellent book. great for teaching (and learning about) media studies, television studies, audience studies and queer studies via Foucault's repressive hypothesis.
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    1.0 out of 5 stars Pretentious, wordy, and repetitive
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