Tele-Advising: Therapeutic Discourse in American Television - Paperback

by Mimi White (Author)

Drawing on feminist, postmodern, and psychoanalytic theories, White traces the impact of television's therapeutic and confessional discourses on family construction and consumer culture. In a comprehensive analysis of cable, network, and syndicated programming and both daytime and prime-time shows, she reveals how the therapeutic and confessional mode functions on television, relating it to broader questions of social identity and power.

Originally published 1992.

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White uses several television programs as case studies, demonstrating their explicit or implicit confessional nature and arguing that viewers are active participants in the narrative and the narrational strategies of the shows.