| Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Contributor(s): Postman, Neil (Author), Riggenbach, Jeff (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1441767363 ISBN-13: 9781441767363 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $44.10 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: October 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Performing Arts | Television - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 302.234 |
| Physical Information: 1.15" H x 6.61" W x 6.43" (0.48 lbs) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this eloquent and persuasive book, Neil Postman examines the deep and broad effects of television culture on the manner in which we conduct our public affairs, and how "entertainment values" have corrupted the very way we think. As politics, news, religion, education, and commerce are given less and less expression in the form of the printed word, they are rapidly being reshaped to suit the requirements of television. And because television is a visual medium, whose images are most pleasurably apprehended when they are fast-moving and dynamic, discourse on television has little tolerance for argument, hypothesis, or explanation. Postman argues that public discourse--the advancing of arguments in logical order for the public good, once a hallmark of American culture--is being converted from exposition and explanation to entertainment. |
Contributor Bio(s): Postman, Neil: - Neil Postman (1931-2003) was chairman of the Department of Communication Arts at New York University and founder of its Media Ecology program. He wrote more than twenty books. His son Andrew Postman is the author of five books, and his work appears in numerous publications. Riggenbach, Jeff: -Jeff Riggenbach has narrated numerous titles for Blackstone Audio and won an AudioFile Earphones Award. An author, contributing editor, and producer, he has worked in radio in San Francisco for the last thirty years, earning a Golden Mike Award for journalistic excellence. |