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The Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality

Neal Gabler

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Vintage Books
15 June 2000

Society & Social Sciences; Politics & government

The story of how our bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip, and melodrama has turned everything-news, politics, religion, 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.

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.

""A thoughtful, in places chilling, account of the way entertainment values have hollowed out American life."" --The New York Times Book Review

By: Neal Gabler
Imprint: Vintage Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 251g
ISBN: 9780375706530
ISBN 10: 0375706534
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 15 June 2000
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Life: The Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality

Mesmerizing.... [It] frames a discussion that seems absolutely vital right now. -The Atlantic Monthly [An] engagingly written, often hilarious and well-informed account of the ways in which entertainment creates a Moebius strip world of stories and images. -The San Diego Union-Tribune Mesmerizing.... ï¿½Itï¿½ frames a discussion that seems absolutely vital right now. - The Atlantic Monthly ï¿½Anï¿½ engagingly written, often hilarious and well-informed account of the ways in which entertainment creates a Moebius strip world of stories and images. - The San Diego Union-Tribune