I like to watch: arguing my way through the TV revolution

✍ Scribed by Emily Nussbaum

• Book ID: 100580579
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 262 KB
• Edition: 2
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 052550897X

✦ Synopsis

From The New Yorker 's fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch.
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"Emily Nussbaum is the perfect critic --smart, engaging, funny, generous, and insightful."--David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon**
From her creation of the "Approval Matrix" in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prize-winning columns for The New Yorker, Emily Nussbaum has argued for a new way of looking at TV. In this collection, including two never-before-published essays, Nussbaum writes about her passion for television, beginning with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the show that set her on a fresh intellectual path. She explores the rise of the female screw-up, how fans warp the shows they love, the messy power of sexual violence on TV, and the year that jokes helped elect a reality television president. There are...