Helen Wood, Talking with Television: Women, Talk Shows, and Modern Self-Reflexivity

摘要

A tremendous amount of talk arrives via the television set, filling our living rooms and bedrooms, day after day. Talk is a staple element of broadcasting and figures in virtually every form of programming. Seeing it in that way conforms with the transmission model of television as mass communication, but, of course, as is nowrnwidely recognized, the communicative frame is broader, occurring in the places or reception as well as of production and distribution, and involving interactive modes of engagement with television output. It is with this approach to television as mediated social interaction that Helen Wood tackles TV and talk. This excellent book operates simultaneously on three planes, dealing with talk on television, talk about television and talking back to what we see and hear on TV, within the space of the domestic setting.