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Not So Prime Time
Howard Rosenberg
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Description for Not So Prime Time
Hardback. Television critic Rosenberg (formerly of the Los Angeles Times) considers the "dumbing-down" of American television in recent years. In a collection of short essays, he examines the increasingly blurry line between news and entertainment and discusses the prevalence of trashy, look-alike "reality shows." He also analyzes the use of television as a Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: APT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 176 x 27. Weight in Grams: 549.
In this witty and candid perspective on American television, the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Howard Rosenberg traces a disturbing pattern: TV's relentless pursuit of the mundane in its seeming quest to dumb-down America. And, he writes, it may be succeeding. How else to interpret the onslaught of look-alike, deceptively titled "reality" shows that have transformed much of prime time into a cratered moonscape? The longer mediocrity endures, Mr. Rosenberg advises, the greater the chance we will become permanently desensitized to it—and seduced by it—making third-rate the standard. He finds occasional heroes but more often rogues. Many of his essays in Not ... Read more
In this witty and candid perspective on American television, the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Howard Rosenberg traces a disturbing pattern: TV's relentless pursuit of the mundane in its seeming quest to dumb-down America. And, he writes, it may be succeeding. How else to interpret the onslaught of look-alike, deceptively titled "reality" shows that have transformed much of prime time into a cratered moonscape? The longer mediocrity endures, Mr. Rosenberg advises, the greater the chance we will become permanently desensitized to it—and seduced by it—making third-rate the standard. He finds occasional heroes but more often rogues. Many of his essays in Not ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566635776
SKU
V9781566635776
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About Howard Rosenberg
Howard Rosenberg was the Los Angeles Times's TV critic for twenty-five years before his retirement in 2003. He won the Pulitzer Prize and two National Headliner awards for his commentary and reporting; his writing has also appeared in a great many magazines. Mr. Rosenberg now teaches news ethics in the Annenberg School and criticism in the film-television school at the ... Read more
Reviews for Not So Prime Time
He wants nothing less than for all of us to become TV critics.
Virginian-Pilot
…Rosenberg plumbs the depths of the sewer with grim levity, wryly chronicling the highlights of the mediocre…. He really shines…
Booklist
...Rosenberg…explores…the still too infrequent peaks of TVland in nimble and often provocative style.
Toronto Globe and Mail
Eloquent and ... Read more
Virginian-Pilot
…Rosenberg plumbs the depths of the sewer with grim levity, wryly chronicling the highlights of the mediocre…. He really shines…
Booklist
...Rosenberg…explores…the still too infrequent peaks of TVland in nimble and often provocative style.
Toronto Globe and Mail
Eloquent and ... Read more