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Life the movie : how entertainment conquered reality / Neal Gabler.
- Title
- Life the movie : how entertainment conquered reality / Neal Gabler.
- Author
- Gabler, Neal
- Publication
- New York : Knopf, 1998.
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Details
- Description
- 303 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- 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, and how all of us are not only an audience but also performance artists acting out our own dramas.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-287) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The republic of entertainment -- The two-dimensional society -- The secondary effect -- The human entertainment -- The mediated self.
- ISBN
- 0679417524 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^98036699^
- OCLC
- 39655612
- SCSB-10288868
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library