Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality
The Movie How Enertainment Conquered Reality
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- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
15 June 2000
Summary
"A thoughtful, in places chilling, account of the way entertainment values have hollowed out American life." —"The New York Times Book Review" From one of America‘s most original cultural critics and the author of Winchell, the story of how our bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip, glamour, and melodrama has turned everything of importance-from news and politics to religion and high culture-into one vast public entertainment. Neal Gabler calls them "lifies," those blockbusters written in the medium of life that dominate the media and the national conversation for weeks, months, even years: the death of Princess Diana, the trial of O.J. Simpson, Kenneth Starr vs. William Jefferson Clinton. Real Life as Entertainment is hardly a new phenomenon, but the movies, and now the new information technologies, have so accelerated it that it is now the reigning popular art form. How this came to pass, and just what it means for our culture and our personal lives, is the subject of this witty, concerned, and sometimes eye-opening book.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375706530 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375706534 |
| Author: | Neal Gabler |
| Publisher: | Vintage Books USA |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 15 June 2000 |
| Weight: | 331g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 132mm x 201mm |
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“Mesmerizing…. [It] frames a discussion that seems absolutely vital right now.”
“Mesmerizing…. [It] frames a discussion that seems absolutely vital right now.” -The Atlantic Monthly “[An] engagingly written, often hilarious and well-informed account of the ways in which entertainment creates a Moebius strip world of stories and images.” -The San Diego Union-Tribune
Neal Gabler
Neal Gabler is the author of “An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, “which won the Los Angeles Times” “Book Prize for history. His biography “Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity “was named best nonfiction book of the year by “Time. “He appears regularly on the media review program “Fox News Watch,” and writes often for “The New York Times “and the “Los Angeles Times. “He is currently a senior fellow at the Norman Lear Center for the Study of Entertainment and Society in the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of Southern California. He live
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