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Jan 24th, 2015, 10:38 pm
Life: The Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality by Neal Gabler
Requirements: ePUB/MOBI Reader, 854 KB
Overview: "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, the story of how our bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip, glamor, 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.

Gabler demonstrates how our hunger for entertainment and the massive exploitation of that hunger have combined to make everything from religion to politics to painting to the news into branches of show business; how Life the Movie has generated and popularized its own stars, and how all of us are not only an audience for the life spectacular, but also performance artists acting out our own dramas within it. 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.
Genre: Non-Fiction > General, Sociology > Popular Culture > History & Criticism, Media Studies

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Jan 24th, 2015, 10:38 pm