{"product_id":"life-neal-gabler-9780375706530","title":"Life: The Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality","description":"The story of how our bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip, and melodrama has turned everything--news, politics, religion, high culture--into one vast public entertainment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Neal Gabler calls them \"lifies,\" those blockbusters written in the medium of life that dominate the media and the national conversation for weeks, months, even years: the death of Princess Diana, the trial of O.J. Simpson, Kenneth Starr vs. William Jefferson Clinton. Real Life as Entertainment is hardly a new phenomenon, but the movies, and now the new information technologies, have so accelerated it that it is now the reigning popular art form. How this came to pass, and just what it means for our culture and our personal lives, is the subject of this witty, concerned, and sometimes eye-opening book. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A thoughtful, in places chilling, account of the way entertainment values have hollowed out American life.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Neal Gabler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0375706534\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375706530\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/29\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 322\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/20\/2000 pg. 24","brand":"Neal Gabler","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946559209727,"sku":"9780375706530","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_0d004564-26b0-4271-adf3-2856c1702a9d.jpg?v=1681513839","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/life-neal-gabler-9780375706530","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}