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For Enquiring Minds: A Cultural Study of Supermarket Tabloids
by S. Elizabeth Bird
from University of Tennessee Press

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• Tabloids as interactive cultural folklore
  Bird is not a former tabloid "insider," but an academic: assistant professor of humanities and anthropology at the University of Minnesota. She discusses tabloid history, beginning as far back as oral "folklore" and urban legends. She interviewed tabloid editors, writers, and readers for this book, and analyzes tabloid stories within the context of folklore theory. She claims that tabloid readers are savvier and better-educated than is assumed, that they "interact and contribute" to with what they read... more info

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