I like to watch : arguing my way through the TV revolution
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525508960
- ISBN: 0525508961
- ISBN: 9780525508977
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Physical Description:
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ix, 366 pages ; 25 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The big picture: how Buffy the Vampire Slayer turned me into a TV critic -- The long con: The Sopranos -- The great divide: Norman Lear, Archie Bunker, and the rise of the bad fan -- Difficult women: how Sex and the City lost its good name -- Cool story, bro: the shallow deep talk of True Detective -- Last girl in Larchmont: the legacy of Joan Rivers -- Girls girls girls Hannah Barbaric: Girls and Enlightened -- Big gulp: Vanderpump rules -- Shark week: House of cards and Scandal -- The little tramp: Inside Amy Schumer -- Hello, Gorgeous: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel -- Candy girl: The unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt -- Confessions of the human shield -- How jokes won the election: how do you fight an enemy who's just kidding? -- Breaking the box. Love, actually: Jane the Virgin -- Return of the repressed: The Comeback -- Shedding her skin: The Good Wife, -- Castles in the air: Adventure Time -- Depression modern: The Leftovers -- Swing states: The Middle -- Smoke and mirrors: High Maintenance -- What Tina Fey would do for a SoyJoy: the trouble with product integration -- In living color: with Black-ish, Kenya Barris rethinks the family sitcom -- In praise of sex and violence: To serve man: Hannibal -- Trauma queen: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit -- Graphic, novel: Marvel's Jessica Jones -- L.A. confidential: Behind the Candelabra -- What about Bob?: The Jinx -- The Americans is too bleak and that's why it's great -- Riot girl: Jenji Kohan's hot provocations -- A disappointed fan is still a fan: Lost -- Mr. Big: how Ryan Murphy became the most powerful man on TV. |
Awards Note: | Winner of the Pulitzer Prize |
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Subject: | Nussbaum, Emily 1966- Television series United States History and criticism Television series United States |
Genre: | Criticism, interpretation, etc. Essays. |
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I Like to Watch : Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
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I Like to Watch : Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
From The New Yorker 's fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch. "Emily Nussbaum is the perfect critic-smart, engaging, funny, generous, and insightful."-David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon From her creation of the "Approval Matrix" in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prize-winning columns for The New Yorker, Emily Nussbaum has argued for a new way of looking at TV. In this collection, including two never-before-published essays, Nussbaum writes about her passion for television, beginning with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the show that set her on a fresh intellectual path. She explores the rise of the female screw-up, how fans warp the shows they love, the messy power of sexual violence on TV, and the year that jokes helped elect a reality-television president. There are three big profiles of television showrunners-Kenya Barris, Jenji Kohan, and Ryan Murphy-as well as examinations of the legacies of Norman Lear and Joan Rivers. The book also includes a major new essay written during the year of #MeToo, wrestling with the question of what to do when the artist you love is a monster. More than a collection of reviews, the book makes a case for toppling the status anxiety that has long haunted the "idiot box," even as it transformed. Through it all, Nussbaum recounts her fervent search, over fifteen years, for a new kind of criticism, one that resists the false hierarchy that elevates one kind of culture (violent, dramatic, gritty) over another (joyful, funny, stylized). I Like to Watch traces her own struggle to punch through stifling notions of "prestige television," searching for a more expansive, more embracing vision of artistic ambition-one that acknowledges many types of beauty and complexity and opens to more varied voices. It's a book that celebrates television as television, even as each year warps the definition of just what that might mean. Advance praise for I Like to Watch "This collection, including some powerful new work, proves once and for all that there's no better American critic of anything than Emily Nussbaum. But I Like to Watch turns out to be even greater than the sum of its brilliant parts-it's the most incisive, intimate, entertaining, authoritative guide to the shows of this golden television age." -Kurt Andersen, author of Fantasyland "Reading Emily Nussbaum makes us smarter not just about what we watch, but about how we live, what we love, and who we are. I Like to Watch is a joy." -Rebecca Traister