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Life: The Movie : How Entertainment Conquered Reality by Gabler, Neal is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Life: The Movie : How Entertainment Conquered Reality about?

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

Who reads Life: The Movie : How Entertainment Conquered Reality?

Author

Gabler, Neal

Publisher

Vintage Books

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307773258

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Science

Rating

3.71 / 5 (272 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13