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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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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
  • Motion pictures > Social aspects > United States
  • Motion pictures > United States > Influence
  • Television broadcasting > Social aspects > United States
  • Television broadcasting > United States > Influence
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