Audience of One
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Audience of One
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Using television Audience of One reframes America through the rattled mind of a septuagenarian, insomniac, cable-news-junkie president.
No single book about the media more thoroughly captured the imagination of readers and critics in 2019 than Audience of One.
Funny, acerbic and observant (Gary Shteyngart, New York Times Book Review), New York Times chief television critic James Poniewozik offers a darkly entertaining (Carlos Lozada, Washington Post) history of mass media from the early 1980s to today, demonstrating how a volcanic, camera-hogging antihero merged with America's most powerful medium to become our forty-fifth president.
In charting the seismic evolution of television from a monolithic mass medium into today's fractious confederation of spite-and-insult media subcultures, Poniewozik reveals how Donald Trump took advantage of these historic changes by constantly reinventing himself: from a boastful cartoon zillionaire; to 1990s self-parodic sitcom fixture; to The Apprentice reality-TV star; and finally to Twitter-mad, culture-warring demagogue.
Already lauded as a brilliant and daring (Annalisa Quinn, NPR) work that defines a generation, Audience of One emerges as a classic in cultural criticism.
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Praised as "the Mueller Report of television criticism" by Emily Nussbaum of The New Yorker, the book offers a witty and penetrating exposΓ© of Trump's intimate bond with television. Maureen Ryan from Variety lauds Poniewozik's wit, insight, and clarity, emphasising how the book reveals the symbiotic relationship between Trump's rise and shifts in American culture and media vulnerabilities. The author's acerbic humour serves to illuminate the unfolding tragedy, making Audience of One a compelling and essential read.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781631494420
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 08 October 2019
Country: United States
Imprint: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 30.0mm
Width: 165.0mm
Height: 244.0mm
Weight: 661g
Pages: 304
About the Author
James Poniewozik has been the chief television critic of the New York Times since 2015. He was previously the television and media critic for Time magazine and media columnist for Salon. He lives in Brooklyn.
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