Works by
Joshua Gamson
(Writer)

• Claims to Fame: Celebrity in Contemporary America (1994)

• The Organizational Shaping of Collective Identity: The Case of Lesbian and Gay Film Festivals in New York (PONPO working paper) (1995)

• Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity (1998)
  Using extensive interviews with talk show production staff and former guests, hundreds of transcripts, focus-group discussions with viewers, and his own experiences as a frequent audience member, Gansom brings to life the wild, paradoxical process through which stigmatized individuals become stars of tabloid television.

• The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the 70s in San Francisco (2005) -- Finalist Lambda Literary Award for Biography
  Once upon a time in a place called San Francisco, a boy with a beautiful voice began to change the world ...

See also:

• Let's Entertain: Life's Guilty Pleasures (2000)
  Let's Entertain: Life's Guilty Pleasures brings together artists who focus their work on the edge of entertainment, not simply to amuse or engage an audience, but also to reflect on a current major social phenomenon: the spectacularization of quotidian experience, from sports and politics to the management of cultural institutions (the box-office syndrome).
  
  Includes essays by Dike Blair, Akiko Busch, Susan Davis, Emma Duncan, Joshua Gamson, Mike Kelley, Pierre Lvy, Greil Marcus, Neil Postman, Richard Shusterman, and Philippe Vergne.