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Celebrities the media and the law
We live in a society in which celebrities have become, symbolically, our national royalty. With the coming of cable and the Internet, and the rise...
St. Louis Journalism Review, 12/01/08 by Elayne Rapping · More from publication -
You've come which way, baby?
The road that leads from June Cleaver to Ally McBeal looks a lot like a U-turn In an undergraduate course a friend of mine teaches, she...
Women's Review of Books, The, 07/01/00 by Rapping, Elayne · More from publication -
Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity.
by Joshua Gamson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998, 288 pp., $22.00 hardcover. As someone whose work often focuses on the most...
Women's Review of Books, The, 10/01/98 by Rapping, Elayne · More from publication -
A feminist's love/hate relationship.(Deconstructing Woody: A Critical Symposium on Woody Allen's 'Deconstructing Harry')
Woody Allen's film 'Deconstructing Harry' is both charming and intelligent. While it is true that the film is mean-spirited in its portrayal of...
Cineaste, 06/22/98 by Rapping, Elayne · More from publication -
Deconstructing Harry.(Review)
While Woody Allen's films have for years won great critical acclaim and delighted audiences worldwide, attention has rarely been focused on his...
Cineaste, 06/22/98 by Dowell, Pat; Kerbel, Michael; Pally, Marcia; Quart, Leonard; Rapping, Elayne · More from publication -
City of Darkness, City of Light.
Marge Piercy writes a lot of novels. Each is refreshingly political, in the most blatant (as opposed to subtly subtextual) sense. Each is...
Women's Review of Books, The, 02/01/97 by Rapping, Elayne · More from publication -
Burrowing within - popularity of home and garden magazines
There are now at least 41 magazines on the newstands devoted to home and garden topics. Like the fitness craze of the 1980s, the obsession with...
Progressive, The, 12/01/96 by Elayne Rapping · More from publication -
The family behind bars - juvenile crime, TV and families - Culture - Column
Juvenile crime, and the criminalization of juvenile defendants, is being distorted and sensationalized by election-hungry politicians. One aspect...
Progressive, The, 09/01/96 by Elayne Rapping · More from publication -
Melrose Place
If one wants to understand the appeal of Jane Austen and the Brontes at the cineplex, one need only check out what is perhaps the most popular of...
Progressive, The, 07/01/96 by Elayne Rapping · More from publication -
Land of good-guy prosecutors - TV portrayals of defense attorneys
TV courtroom dramas too often present the case from the prosecutors point of view and are seldom sympathetic to the defendant and the defense...
Progressive, The, 05/01/96 by Elayne Rapping · More from publication
