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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Book Details
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Publish Date: Dec 27th, 2005
- Pages: 208
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.70in - 5.00in - 0.60in - 0.35lb
- EAN: 9780143036531
- Recommended age: 18-UP
- Categories: • Sociology - General• Media Studies• Television - History & Criticism
About the Author
More books by Neil Postman
What people are saying
"unbelievably brilliant and prescient ... [Amusing Ourselves to Death] is more relevant to our world today than almost anything being written today ... you should actually just read this book and not file this away as a neat recommendation in the back of your head."
"Neil Postman’s 1985 book is more relevant than ever... The book is a perfect example of how if you want to understand the present, look to the past… even the recent past."
"Well, I have to recommend Neil Postman, “Amusing Ourselves to Death.” ... Postman is at least incredibly clear and accessible, and it’s a very good way into media ecology as a way of seeing and thinking about the world."
Praise for this book
"All I can say about Neil Postman's brilliant Amusing Ourselves to Death is: Guilty As Charged." -Matt Groening, Creator of The Simpsons
"As a fervent evangelist of the age of Hollywood, I publicly opposed Neil Postman's dark picture of our media-saturated future. But time has proved Postman right. He accurately foresaw that the young would inherit a frantically all-consuming media culture of glitz, gossip, and greed." -Camille Paglia
"A brilliant, powerful, and important book. This is an indictment that Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one." -Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World
What people are saying
"unbelievably brilliant and prescient ... [Amusing Ourselves to Death] is more relevant to our world today than almost anything being written today ... you should actually just read this book and not file this away as a neat recommendation in the back of your head."
"Neil Postman’s 1985 book is more relevant than ever... The book is a perfect example of how if you want to understand the present, look to the past… even the recent past."