Wir amüsieren uns zu Tode. Urteilsbildung im Zeitalter der Unterhaltungsindustrie
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9783596242856 (3596242851)
Publish date: 2000
Publisher: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag
Pages no: 206
Edition language: Deutsch
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
School,
Science,
Technology,
Culture,
Education,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
Psychology
The book didn't live up to its title, even though it was preaching to the very much converted. Maybe it's like the old show biz joke: a man goes to a booking agent and offers to show him a once-in-a-lifetime act. He then sets himself on fire and disappears. "Great, what else do you do?"
A must-read, especially if you write for a living, or watch any amount of TV news, ever.
If you've read, and liked, [b:Brave New World|5129|Brave New World|Aldous Huxley|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41SJW829TEL._SL75_.jpg|3204877], this is a great non-fiction companion book.
I've never really been a TV addict. Oh, I've watched plenty of television fare in my time, but I've always been more interested in comics and books, I think, because of their permanence. TV, until the advent of the videocassette recorder, had been extremely ephemeral.The ephemeral nature of TV, whic...
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