Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity

From: The Village Voice | Date: December 8, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

FREAKS TALK BACK: TABLOID TALK SHOWS AND SEXUAL NONCONFORMITY

By Joshua Gamson

University of Chicago Press, 288 pp., $22

For Joshua Gamson, talk shows have always been forums that transform polite discussion into the urge to lob a tomato at pretension. Taking us behind the scenes, he reveals how bookers fan those embers by lying about the day's topic, encouraging guests to fight, or even withholding return tickets until after taping.

Freaks Talk Back is funny, well-- researched, and readable, and Gamson's undogmatic willingness to listen prevents him from imposing a preshrunk theory on ...

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