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Life in the Bleep-Cycle: Inventing Id-TV on the Jerry Springer Show

2003; Wayne State University Press; Volume: 25; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/dis.2005.0002

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Debbie Epstein, Deborah Lynn Steinberg,

Media, Gender, and Advertising

American1 talk television has cut a significant swathe across the broadcasting landscape. As a genre it is one of the most extensively syndicated and franchised media forms world-wide. American talk shows have long been pre-eminent not only in the massive export of multiple products, but also as genre-setting influences in the relatively recent proliferation of home-grown American-style talk shows in other countries. Moreover, American talk show hosts are not only household names across a communication village, but some have become figures whose personal iconic status is matched or at least approached by staggering economic capital (both in terms of personal wealth and corporate industry). For instance, Harpo, the multi-stranded empire of Oprah Winfrey, not only produces her talk show, but is involved in a considerable range of media, educational and charitable ventures. Finally, the talk show is, in itself, both central to and has been formative in the growing and global industry of constructed reality television. In the evolution of talk television, the Jerry Springer Show has a distinctive place in three respects. First it is a hybrid genre drawing