Pre-Owned Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback) 014303653X 9780143036531

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Pre-Owned Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback) 014303653X 9780143036531 Amusing Ourselves to Death Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Paperback Neil Postman

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Title: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Book Format: Paperback
ISBN10: 014303653X
EAN: 9780143036531
Genre: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
Author: Postman, Neil
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Publication date
1985
Pages
208
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Grade 11, Grade 12
Number in series
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What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever.
It's unlikely that Trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but his ascent would not have surprised Postman." -CNN

Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman's groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed as a twenty-first-century book published in the twentieth century. Now, with television joined by more sophisticated electronic media--from the Internet to cell phones to DVDs--it has taken on even greater significance. Amusing Ourselves to Death is a prophetic look at what happens when politics, journalism, education, and even religion become subject to the demands of entertainment. It is also a blueprint for regaining control of our media, so that they can serve our highest goals.

"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

Title: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Book Format: Paperback
ISBN10: 014303653X
EAN: 9780143036531
Genre: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
Author: Postman, Neil
Pre-Owned Condition- Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

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Publication date

1985

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