Media scandals : morality and desire in the popular culture marketplace /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Lull, James, Hinerman, Stephen
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, 1997.
Subjects:	Scandals in mass media. Mass media and culture. Mass media > Moral and ethical aspects.

Table of Contents:

The search for scandal / James Lull and Stephen Hinerman
Scandal and social theory / John B. Thompson
"And besides, the wench is dead" : media scandals and the globalization of communication / John Tomlinson
Anxiety, desire, and conflict in the American racial imagination / Herman Gray
What a story! : understanding the audience for scandal / S. Elizabeth Bird
Character, celebrity, and sexual innuendo in the mass-mediated presidency / Bruce E. Gronbeck
(Don't) leave me alone : tabloid narrative and the Michael Jackson child abuse scandal / Stephen Hinerman
Producing trash, class, and the money shot / Laura Grindstaff
Apollo undone : the sports scandal / David Rowe
Church, media, and scandal / Paul A. Soukup
Pushin' it to the limit : scandals and pop music / Javier Santiago-Lucerna.