Life
Book description
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…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Life as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Neal Gabler is one of our most astute cultural critics.
I met him when I invited him to be my guest in a Princeton seminar called “Writing about Popular Culture.”
He talked compellingly about his books like Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity and An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, which carefully examined the inner workings of entertainment and celebrity.
In Life: The Movie, Gabler takes the argument even further, drawing on examples ranging from Elizabeth Taylor and Tom Cruise to Princess Diana and Oprah Winfrey to show how celebrity hagiography has turned everything…
From Landon's list on celebrity culture and what it is doing to America.
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