Amusing Ourselves to Death
Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
$29.11
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
27 December 2005
Summary
What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell’s 1984, Neil Postman’s essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever.
“It’s unlikely that Trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but his ascent would not have surprised Postman.” - CNN
Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our poli…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143036531 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014303653X |
| Author: | Neil Postman, Andrew Postman |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Edition: | 20th |
| Release Date: | 27 December 2005 |
| Weight: | 176g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 130mm x 196mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
Critics Review
“I can’t think of a more prophetic, more thoughtful, more necessary – and yes, more entertaining – book about media culture.” –Victor Navasky, National Book Award-winning author of The Art of Controversy
“All I can say about Neil Postman’s brilliant Amusing Ourselves to Death is: Guilty As Charged.” –Matt Groening, Creator of The Simpsons
“As a fervent evangelist of the age of Hollywood, I publicly opposed Neil Postman’s dark picture of our media-saturated future. But time has proved Postman right. He accurately foresaw that the young would inherit a frantically all-consuming media culture of glitz, gossip, and greed.” –Camille Paglia
“A brilliant, powerful, and important book. This is an indictment that Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one.” –Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World
Neil Postman
Neil Postman (1931–2003) was chairman of the Department of Communication Arts at New York University and founder of its Media Ecology program. He wrote more than twenty books.
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