{"product_id":"i-like-to-watch-arguing-my-way-through-the-tv-revolution-9780525508984","title":"I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e's fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Emily Nussbaum is the perfect critic--smart, engaging, funny, generous, and insightful.\"--David Grann, author of \u003ci\u003eKillers of the Flower Moon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR - \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eEsquire \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From her creation of the \"Approval Matrix\" in \u003ci\u003eNew York \u003c\/i\u003emagazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prize-winning columns for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBuffy the Vampire Slayer, \u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMore 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). \u003ci\u003eI Like to Watch\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eas\u003c\/i\u003e television, even as each year warps the definition of just what that might mean. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE PEN\/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eI Like to Watch\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cb\u003e--Kurt Andersen, author of \u003ci\u003eFantasyland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Reading Emily Nussbaum makes us smarter not just about what we watch, but about how we live, what we love, and who we are. \u003ci\u003eI Like to Watch \u003c\/i\u003eis a joy.\"\u003cb\u003e--Rebecca Traister\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House Trade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/09\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780525508984\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.00d","brand":"Emily Nussbaum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36638299947164,"sku":"9780525508984","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_30a62e1c-6494-451f-b626-3e5ce4708415.jpg?v=1603846942","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/i-like-to-watch-arguing-my-way-through-the-tv-revolution-9780525508984","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}