TY - JOUR T1 - Audiences Talking Genre: Television Talk Shows and Cultural Hierarchies JF - Journal of Popular Film and Television Y1 - 2003 A1 - Mittell, Jason KW - audience KW - Bourdieu KW - cultural studies KW - genre KW - survey KW - talk show KW - taste KW - television AB - The author explores howaudience members make sense of the talk show genre-from daytime issueoriented 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. VL - 31 SP - 36–46 N1 - + pdf ER -