The money shot: trash, class, and the making of TV talk shows

Acknowledgments

Word about names

Principal cast

Prologue : Setting the stage

Airing dirty laundry

Genre goes hard-core : a brief history of talk shows and the money shot

Talk as work : routinizing the production process

Talk as show (a show of emotion)

Other side of the camera : motives and misgivings

Inside the fun house

Will the real expert please stand up?

Trash, class, and cultural hierarchy

Epilogue : Airing another kind of dirty laundry : confessions of a feminist fieldworker.