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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… (meer)
A throughout interesting read, one of the kinds of books that makes you look at the world and all the familiar things in a new light. It contains everything from the class origins and differences between art and entertainment and how entertainment subsumed art, how almost everything has fallen into the mould of entertainment, be it the news, sports, lives of "celebrities" and even our own lives. It goes deeply into the interesting case of the "celebrity", a person who, according to Boorstein, is "famous for being famous". A really hitting quote was "Earlier movies were measured up against life, how accurately they portrayed life, now our lives are supposed to meet the expectations set by movies". It was quite amusing the way some things were put, like how people go to the Hard Rock cafe to buy souveniers, but if they don't eat there, then what are the souveniers supposed to make them remember? The act of buying souveniers? This was exemplified on a larger scale by what were termed as "pseudo events", events created especially for media coverage. Many ideas in the book were inspired from The Image by Boorstein and that's what I am going to read next.
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
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