{"product_id":"life-the-movie-how-entertainment-conquered-reality-paperback","title":"Life: The Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNeal Gabler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story of how our bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip, and melodrama has turned everything--news, politics, religion, high culture--into one vast public entertainment. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A thoughtful, in places chilling, account of the way entertainment values have hollowed out American life.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA thoughtful, in places chilling, account of the way entertainment values have hollowed out American life. --\"The New York Times Book Review \u003cbr\u003eFrom one of America's most original cultural critics and the author of Winchell, the story of how our bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip, glamour, and melodrama has turned everything of importance-from news and politics to religion and high culture-into one vast public entertainment. \u003cbr\u003eNeal 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeal Gabler is the author of five books: \u003ci\u003eAn Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity, Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWalt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e, and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eBarbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity and Power\u003c\/i\u003e for the Yale Jewish Lives series. His essays and articles have appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines, including \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Playboy, Newsweek\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, and he has been the recipient of two \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prizes, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine's nonfiction book of the year, \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e's biography of the year, a National Book Critics Circle nomination, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Public Policy Scholarship at the Woodrow Wilson Center, a Shorenstein Fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Patrick Henry Fellowship at Washington College's C.V. Starr Center. He has also served as the chief nonfiction judge of the National Book Awards. Gabler is currently a professor for the MFA program at Stonybrook Southampton.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 29, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751235322144,"sku":"9780375706530","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6f747a68def368b144d5890c97cca5be.webp?v=1779968287","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/life-the-movie-how-entertainment-conquered-reality-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}