Try these books to start: John Thornton Caldwell, TELEVISUALITY: Style, Crisis, & Authority in American Television (Rutgers, 1995) Mimi White, TELE-ADVISING: Therapeutic Discourse in American Television (University of North Carolina Pr, 1992) ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]