Ronald Bishop 
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The Vanishing of Scale in an Over-the-Top Nation

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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 live–in contemporary culture. Bishop 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.

Playfully mixing personal narratives with an abundance of examples from television shows, news stories, editorials, advertisements, books, and movies, Bishop demonstrates how media promote the idea that the notion of scale must be abandoned to achieve success and happiness in modern society.

Written with originality, intellectual acumen, and wit, More is a must-read for anyone obsessed with being obsessed and for others interested in media’s contribution to society’s out-of-scale behavior.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Go Forth and Multiply

2. Is Breast Best?

3. Is Zero Tolerance Tolerable?

4. Only Experts and Fanatics Need Apply

5. My Drug of Choice

6. The Tyranny of Talking Points

7. Does Anthony Bourdain Hate Rachel Ray?

8. The Museum of Me

Conclusions: Thanks a Lot, Tim Mc Graw

Über den Autor

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.

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Sprache Englisch ● Format PDF ● Seiten 298 ● ISBN 9781602584457 ● Dateigröße 9.8 MB ● Verlag Baylor University Press ● Ort Waco ● Land US ● Erscheinungsjahr 2011 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 7483739 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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