Feeley. Your panel topic is the same as the book on which you collaborated. When private talk goes public. How do you define gossip . That is a big question. Many scholars would say there is no airtight cold truly perfect definition of gossip. It varies across different fields and domains. We decided to define gossip as private talk. Talk about peoples her pharrell personal lives aired privately. If you dont think that boundary should be crossed and private information shouldnt be made public, you would see gossip and eight at in a negative light. If you think it is good, building communities, learning about what is right and wrong and how to behave, you could have a different definition of gossip, seeing it as positive. It can be positive or negative but it is that idea that it is private personal information aired in public. Is this a matter of semantics . Is it the word gossip itself, or is this the kind of material that historians have always looked for . Prof. Feeley we have alway
We see this power, this visual culture that is often written, often spoken. There is also a really important visual components. In the case of the mccarthyism, how did you document, how can you document gossip employed politically . Prof. Frost in that example Andrea Friedman found there was a journalist who wrote a piece talking about this. She would say that was one journalist. She also knows that it shaped the discussion around him. This photograph, mccarthy whispering to his assistant, that image of intimacy and whispering and gossip, that was plastered everywhere. Even if there was only one article that talks about what was his relationship, that image that didnt look up standing, it didnt look respectful. The other thing we can see is that we see gossip in the hearings when they did their investigations and a hollywood and subversion in hollywood. 1947. The House Committee on unamerican activities. 1947, and the early 1950s. They are using hearsay. It is a congressional hearing.
After a year of losing her ability to speak, Andrea Fay Friedman died at age 53. Her father admitted that the actress' death comes after a struggle with Alzheimer's disease