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STREET LIFE.: An article from: The American Prospect
Joshua Gamson

The American Prospect, Inc., 2000

This digital document is an article from The American Prospect, published by The American Prospect, Inc. on November 6, 2000. The length of the article is 1654 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: STREET LIFE. Author: Joshua ...

Claims to Fame: Celebrity in Contemporary America

3 reviews
Joshua Gamson

University of California Press, 1994

THIS book
Sometimes when people read a book and then review it, the review reflects what it is that they wanted the book to say and do rather than what the book in fact sets out to say and do. (And when academics review a book, instead you get an essay on what they would say if they wrote the book. But they didn't, so back to the book at hand.) Gamson's treatment of celebrity is not Berger or Spengler's ...

Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity

2 reviews
Joshua Gamson

University Of Chicago Press, 1999

Engaging glimpse into the sordid world of TV talk.
As a gay man, Gamson provides an interesting perspective on LGBT issues and exposes many of the hypocritical and often contradictory themes recurrent to the shows. There are many entertaining episodes recounted, but the book is more of a unique blend of sociological and personal importance. The writing can be a bit dry at times, but it is an intertaining and thought-provoking book for gays and ...

Let's Entertain: Life's Guilty Pleasures

2 reviews
Dike Blair, Susan Davis, ...

Walker Art Center, 2000

Amazing book- about as great as the exhibit itself
This book is an excellent companion to the great exhibit, but also good on its own. It is bound well and has glossy pics of the art as well as explanations and commentary by the artists. A wonderful book

The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco

21 reviews
Joshua Gamson

Picador, 2006

Great Book
this Book was on right on time. Sylvester was something else back in the day as a artist and very Open about his sexuality. He didn't back down from anything. His voice was the truth and very soulful. this Book explores his whole career and thensome and the many other artists he encountered and how important they were,etc... this book takes you back to a time period when so much was happening. a ...

Public Affairs: Politics in the Age of Sex Scandals

Duke University Press, 2004

Public affairs?or sex scandals?involving prominent politicians are as revealing of American culture as they are of individual peccadillos. Implicated in their unfolding are a broad range of institutions, trends, questions, and struggles, including political parties, Hollywood, the Christian right, new communications technologies, the restructuring of corporate media, feminist and civil rights debates, and the meaning of public life in the ...