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  Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American Culture (Hardback) Edited by Trystan Cotten, Edited by Kimberley M. Springer

  

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  Short Description for Stories of OprahA collection of essays examining how Oprah Winfrey has gone from chat show host to cultural icon and one of the world's most influential people. It also examines how Oprah has fashioned a persona - which emphasizes her rural, poverty-stricken roots - that has helped her popularize her unique brand of spirituality, politics, and thinking.
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  • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
  • Published: 27 February 2010
  • Format: Hardback 210 pages
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  • Categories: Individual Actors & Performers | Popular Culture | Media Studies | Gender Studies: Women
  • ISBN 13: 9781604734072 ISBN 10: 1604734078

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• This is a perceptive collection of essays examining how Oprah Winfrey has gone from chat show host to cultural icon and one of the world's most influential people. "Stories of Oprah" brings together a collection of essays that explore Oprah Winfrey's broad reach as an industry and media brand and the ways in which her cultural output has shaped contemporary American society. Written in a revealing and insightful manner, the essays examine a number of topics, including how Oprah has fashioned a persona - which emphasizes her rural, poverty-stricken roots - that has helped her popularize her unique brand of spirituality, politics, and thinking; how her Book Club has reshaped American literary publishing, bringing writers such as Toni Morrison and Cormac McCarthy to the attention of the general population; and how her pioneering use of the 'confessional' style talk-show has influenced mainstream broadcasting. This is a must-have volume for anyone interested in understanding how Oprah Winfrey has gone from day-time talk-show host to the person CNN called 'arguably the world's most powerful woman'.