Life

The Movie - How Entertainment Conquered Reality

By: Neal Gabler

"a thoughtful, in places chilling, account of the way entertainment values have hollowed out american life." --the new york times book reviewfrom one of america's most original cultural critics and the author of , the story of how our bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip, glamour, and melodrama has turned everything of importance-from news and politics to religion and high culture-into one...