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Oprah and Her Book Club: More than Mass Media Money-Maker

With her Book Club, talk show host Oprah Winfrey has used the relatively new technology of television to revive literature. Despite the odds against her--selecting hard-to-read, quirky books by generally unknown authors--Winfrey has successfully created women's spaces for the 1990s, not so different from the American women's social clubs from the late 1800s and early 1900s, and the French salons of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This study will show how Oprah's Book Club allows readers, especially women, to use the psychological processes of transference and transactional reading by using fictional literature from the Book Club to discuss sensitive areas of their lives.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc277830
Date05 1900
CreatorsJones, Carrie S. Lilly
ContributorsCarstarphen, Meta G., 1954-, Albright, Jim, Lambiase, Jacqueline
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatvi, 113 leaves, Text
RightsPublic, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved., Jones, Carrie S. Lilly

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