Oprah and Her Book Club: More than Mass Media Money-Maker
Description:
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 reader…
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Date:
May 1999
Creator:
Jones, Carrie S. Lilly
Partner:
UNT Libraries