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Hardcover. A treatment of media's obsession with triviality. It argues that American audiences are assaulted with messages that the ordinary, and often private, aspects of our lives - family, childhood, parenting, education, food, sports, home improvement - must be showcased publicly and with extreme passion. Num Pages: 298 pages. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 558.
Gone are the days of enjoying life's simple pleasures for pleasure's sake. Twenty-first-century Americans are on a mission to cram every second of their earthly existence with significant accomplishments and momentous events. Even the most mundane undertaking must be approached with zeal, gusto, and expertise, or so the media persuade us to believe.
Are we capable of doing anything casually anymore?
In this first book-length treatment of media's obsession with triviality, cultural critic Ronald Bishop calls into focus the role of media in the demise of scale - the amount of effort, intensity, and significance with which we ... Read more
Gone are the days of enjoying life's simple pleasures for pleasure's sake. Twenty-first-century Americans are on a mission to cram every second of their earthly existence with significant accomplishments and momentous events. Even the most mundane undertaking must be approached with zeal, gusto, and expertise, or so the media persuade us to believe.
Are we capable of doing anything casually anymore?
In this first book-length treatment of media's obsession with triviality, cultural critic Ronald Bishop calls into focus the role of media in the demise of scale - the amount of effort, intensity, and significance with which we ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Baylor University Press United States
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
Number of Pages
298
Place of Publication
Waco, United States
ISBN
9781602582583
SKU
V9781602582583
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Ref
99-3
About Ronald Bishop
Ronald Bishop is Professor of Communication at Drexel University. A former journalist and newspaper editor, Bishop is the author of When Play Was Play: Why Pick-Up Games Matter and Taking on the Pledge of Allegiance: The News Media and Michael Newdow's Constitutional Challenge. He lives in the greater Wilmington, Delaware area.
Reviews for More
"Bishop is an accomplished cultural critic and writer, and his wit and examples prevent the book from becoming pedantic or preachy. More suggests that when television strips away perspective, it is time to turn off the television. Highly recommended."
Choice (2012, 49:06) More is an engaging, liberal-minded rumination on what a society might lose when it allows ... Read more
Choice (2012, 49:06) More is an engaging, liberal-minded rumination on what a society might lose when it allows ... Read more