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Life, the Movie by Neal Gabler: Used
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 1998-11-10
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN
- 9780679417521
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679417524
ISBN-13
9780679417521
eBay Product ID (ePID)
998444
Product Key Features
Book Title
Life the Movie : How Entertainment Conquered Reality
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1998
Topic
Film / General, Television / History & Criticism, Television / General, Popular Culture
Genre
Performing Arts, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
Item Length
8.7 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
98-036699
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
302.23/43/0973
Synopsis
In an important book that sharply illuminates our obsessions with celebrity, gossip, scandal, and real-life melodrama, Neal Gabler shows us today's astonishing conversion of life itself into Entertainment--Life the Movie. Revealing what now unites phenomena as diverse as modern art, President Clinton versus Kenneth Starr, the O. J. Simpson trial, the Unabomber murders, and Elizabeth Taylor's marriages, 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--the rich and famous; 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. Starting in nineteenth-century America with the theatrics of the popular stage and the sensations of the popular press, Gabler traces the phenomenal rise of Entertainment as it challenges high culture. He also shows how entertainment, most notably with the arrival of the movies, comes to dominate the national consciousness by introducing a new way of seeing, until it seems that every endeavor and idea must become part of the grand, ever-growing, ongoing Big Show or risk invisibility. How this came to pass and what it means for our culture and for our personal lives are explored in a book at once astute, witty, concerned, and a lively pleasure to read.
LC Classification Number
PN1995.9.S6G23 1998
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