| The money shot: Trash, class, and the making of TV talk shows L Grindstaff University of Chicago Press, 2008 | 600 | 2008 |
| Cheerleading and the gendered politics of sport L Grindstaff, E West Social Problems 53 (4), 500-518, 2006 | 160 | 2006 |
| Handbook of cultural sociology L Grindstaff, MCM Lo, JR Hall Routledge, 2010 | 131 | 2010 |
| Culture and popular culture: A case for sociology L Grindstaff The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 619 (1 …, 2008 | 79 | 2008 |
| Producing trash, class, and the money shot: A behind-the-scenes account of daytime TV talk shows L Grindstaff Media scandals: Morality and desire in the popular culture marketplace, 164-202, 1997 | 78 | 1997 |
| Hegemonic masculinity on the sidelines of sport L Grindstaff, E West Sociology Compass 5 (10), 859-881, 2011 | 76 | 2011 |
| Video cultures: Television sociology in the “new TV” age L Grindstaff, J Turow Annu. Rev. Sociol. 32, 103-125, 2006 | 76 | 2006 |
| Reality celebrity: Branded affect and the emotion economy L Grindstaff, S Murray Public culture 27 (1), 109-135, 2015 | 66 | 2015 |
| Self-Serve Celebrity: The Production of Ordinariness and the Ordinariness of Production in RealityTelevision L Grindstaff Production Studies, 79-94, 2009 | 47 | 2009 |
| “Hands on hips, smiles on lips!” Gender, race, and the performance of spirit in cheerleading L Grindstaff, E West Text and Performance Quarterly 30 (2), 143-162, 2010 | 46 | 2010 |
| Just be yourself–only more so: Ordinary celebrity in the era of self-service television L Grindstaff The Politics of Reality Television, 58-78, 2010 | 43 | 2010 |
| DI (t) Y, Reality‐Style: The Cultural Work of Ordinary Celebrity L Grindstaff A companion to reality television, 324-344, 2013 | 39 | 2013 |
| A Pygmalion Tale Retold: Remaking La Femme Nikita L Grindstaff Camera Obscura 16 (2), 1-175, 2001 | 35 | 2001 |
| From Jerry Springer to Jersey Shore: The cultural politics of class in/on US reality programming L Grindstaff Reality television and class, 197-209, 2011 | 34 | 2011 |
| The Money Shot: Trash L Grindstaff Class, and the making of TV Talk Shows 1, 2002 | 33 | 2002 |
| Reality TV and the Production of'Ordinary Celebrity': Notes from the Field L Grindstaff Berkeley journal of sociology, 22-40, 2012 | 32 | 2012 |
| Pretty Woman with a Gun: La Femme Nikita and the Textual Politics of ‘The Remake’ L Grindstaff Dead Ringers: The Remake in Theory and Practice, 273-308, 2002 | 26 | 2002 |
| Re-membering John Bobbitt: Castration anxiety, male hysteria, and the phallus L Grindstaff, M McCaughey No angels: Women who commit violence, 142-160, 1996 | 25 | 1996 |
| Abortion and the popular press: Mapping media discourse from Roe to Webster L Grindstaff Abortion politics in the United States and Canada: Studies in public opinion …, 1994 | 25 | 1994 |
| Feminism, psychoanalysis, and (male) hysteria over John Bobbitt's missing manhood L Grindstaff, M McCaughey Men and Masculinities 1 (2), 173-192, 1998 | 19 | 1998 |
