| Captive Audience: On Love and Reality TV Contributor(s): Mann, Lucas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0525435549 ISBN-13: 9780525435549 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Performing Arts | Television - History & Criticism - Family & Relationships | Marriage & Long Term Relationships |
| Dewey: 791.456 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.2" W x 7.8" (0.55 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An intimate portrait of a marriage intertwined with a meditation on reality TV that reveals surprising connections and the meaning of an authentic life. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL. In Lucas Mann's trademark vein--fiercely intelligent, self-deprecating, brilliantly observed, idiosyncratic, personal, funny, and infuriating--Captive Audience is an appreciation of reality television wrapped inside a love letter to his wife, with whom he shares the guilty pleasure of watching real people bare their souls in search of celebrity. Captive Audience resides at the intersection of popular culture with the personal; the exhibitionist impulse, with the schadenfreude of the vicarious, and in confronting some of our most suspect impulses achieves a heightened sense of what it means to live an authentic life and what it means to love a person. |