From Jack Paar to David Letterman in entertainment, Edward R. Murrow to Larry King in news and public affairs, the talk show has become a staple of American television viewing. An expert on the genre will offer his views in a lecture at Ithaca College on Monday, February 24. Bernard Timberg will speak on "Television Talk: The Place of TV Talk Shows in Public Discourse" at 7:30 p.m. in Textor 101. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Timberg is the author of the forthcoming book Television Talk: The History, Forms, and Stars of the Television Talk Show. An associate professor of communication at Radford University, he teaches courses in television, popular culture, international film, media literacy, and video production. He has produced public access television programming in Nebraska and Virginia as well as for Iowa National Public Radio.
Timberg has also written a chapter on "The Unspoken Rules of Television Talk" in the book Television: The Critical View; co-edited the book Fair Use and Free Inquiry: Copyright Law and the New Media; and co-authored "Television Commercials and the Contradictions of Everyday Life" in the book Television Myth and the American Mind. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Austin, an M.S. from Iowa State University, and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.
In addition to his public lecture, Timberg will be speaking in several classes in the Roy H. Park School of Communications during his visit. For more information, contact Carolyn Byerly, assistant professor of television-radio, at (607) 274-3910.
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