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Original Articles

Audiences Talking Genre: Television Talk Shows and Cultural Hierarchies

Pages 36-46 | Published online: 01 Apr 2010
 

Abstract

The author explores how audience members make sense of the talk show genre–from daytime issue-oriented programs to late-night entertainment shows–through a qualitative survey of television viewers. He argues that the genre is linked to assumed notions of identity and hierarchies of cultural value that help explain the genre's controversial history.

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Jason Mittell

JASON MITTELL is an assistant professor of American civilization and film and media culture at Middlebury College. He has published essays in Cinema Journal, The Velvet Light Trap, Television and New Media, Film History, and a number of anthologies. He is currently working on a book on television genres as cultural categories.

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