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Captive Audience : On Love and Reality TV by Lucas Mann (2018, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100525435549
ISBN-139780525435549
eBay Product ID (ePID)248482819
Product Key Features
Book TitleCaptive Audience : on Love and Reality TV
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLove & Romance, Marriage & Long-Term Relationships, Television / History & Criticism, Personal Memoirs, Television & Video, Television / Genres / Reality, Game Shows & Talk Shows
Publication Year2018
GenreFamily & Relationships, Performing Arts, Technology & Engineering, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorLucas Mann
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight9.9 Oz
Item Length7.9 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2017-040585
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"This is book is about what it means to see and be seen. And more: it is about what it means to see and be seen in love . Lucas Mann always writes openly, even ecstatically, at the boundaries of the essay form. Captive Audience offers the pleasure of reading all these things: memoir, lucid cultural analysis, TV Guide , journalism, and, most of all, glorious love letters hurting with shared joys and naked vulnerability." --Amitava Kumar, author of Immigrant, Montana "There is no cultural critic in America like Lucas Mann. Perhaps that's because he turns on the television and sees what you don't--in the vulgar and striving world of reality television, he finds beauty and heart in the ambition that drove these over-tanned and underfed people to perform for us--and that brought us in to watch. Mann's voice is filled with empathy, irony, and a tenderness that will make you laugh and then ache, sometimes within the span of a single, perfectly constructed sentence. Captive Audience is the definitive book on the aging but perennially renewed genre of reality TV, and there isn't an author alive who could have written it better." --Kristen Radtke, author of Imagine Only Wanting This
Dewey Decimal791.456
SynopsisFrom the national bestselling author of Lord Fear and Class A comes "a tender, humane, comic, brainy, unsettling achievement" (Paul Lisicky, author of The Narrow Door- A Memoir of Friendship) about what it means to live an authentic life and what it means to love a person. 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. C a ptive 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 impulsesreveals surprising connections and the meaning of an authentic life., From the national bestselling author of Lord Fear and Class A comes "a tender, humane, comic, brainy, unsettling achievement" (Paul Lisicky, author of The Narrow Door: A Memoir of Friendship) about what it means to live an authentic life and what it means to love a person. 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. C a ptive 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 reveals surprising connections and the meaning of an authentic life., 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. C a ptive 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.
LC Classification NumberPN1992.8.R43
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