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Tuning in to media spectacles.

McDaniel, Diane.

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Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Tuning in to media spectacles./
Author:	McDaniel, Diane.
Description:	378 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Ronald Gottesman.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-09A.
Subject:	American Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3027750
ISBN:	0493398074

Tuning in to media spectacles.
McDaniel, Diane.

Tuning in to media spectacles. - 378 p.

Adviser: Ronald Gottesman.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Southern California, 2001.

During the 1990s, the American television-viewing public was confronted with a series of domestic media events that usurped and dominated not only the television schedule but also the public's attention. These events include the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill Senate hearings and Earvin “Magic” Johnson's announcement that he was HIV positive; the beating of Rodney King and the 1992 Los Angeles “riots”; figure skater Tonya Harding's involvement in the clubbing of her rival Nancy Kerrigan, and their Olympic “showdown”; the trial of OJ Simpson; and the impeachment and Senate trial of President Bill Clinton. While much has been written about each of these events individually, there has not been a comprehensive look at these events, what I call media spectacles, either as constituting a television genre or in relation to one another.

ISBN: 0493398074Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

Tuning in to media spectacles.
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520 $a Using both works of scholarly criticism and popular sources, I examine how media spectacles, which were for the most part lambasted as representing the worst side of America's appetite for trash, gossip, and titillation, also opened a window in American cultural politics that allowed for the examination of the culturally contested discourses of race, class, and gender.
520 $a During the 1990s, cultural friction around issues of race, class and gender was at a peak, and the arena in which much of the public discourse about these issues played out was the mass media. Much of the openness that allowed these normally suppressed discourses to be publicly contested can be attributed to changes in the media environment, especially the ascendance of cable broadcasting and the decline in power of the traditional networks. These changes affected not just what was broadcast on television, but what was covered in popular print media, allowing for the possibility of transformation in American culture, as the very presumptions upon this culture was founded were brought into plain view.
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