An edition of Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985)

Wir amüsieren uns zu Tode

Urteilsbildung im Zeitalter der Unterhaltungsindustrie

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An edition of Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985)

Wir amüsieren uns zu Tode

Urteilsbildung im Zeitalter der Unterhaltungsindustrie

by and

  • ★★★★ 4.17 ·
  • 23 Ratings
  • 198 Want to read
  • 6 Currently reading
  • 30 Have read

Amusing Ourselves to Death is a prophetic look at what happens when politics, journalism, education, and even religion become subject to the demands of entertainment. It is also a blueprint for regaining control of our media, so that they can serve our highest goals.

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Fischer
Language
German

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Subjects
Mass media, Influence, Television broadcasting, Social aspects, Social aspects of Television broadcasting, Nonfiction, Performing Arts, Sociology, Culturele invloeden, Televisie, open_syllabus_project, Médias, Television, Aspect social, CHR 1986, PRO Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy), Argumentation, Télévision, Politische Kultur, Fernsehen, Médias - Aspect social, Télévision - Aspect social, Médias - Influence, Mass media, united states, history, Television broadcasting, social aspects, Mass media, social aspects, Media Control, Electronic Entertainment, Education, Society, Dian shi jie mu, Ying xiang, Wen yu huo dong, Chuan bo mei jie, Yan jiu, Mass media--influence, Mass media--united states, P94 .p63 1986, P 94 p857a 1985a, 302.2/34, Media - general & miscellaneous, Media - theory & philosophy
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Neil Postman
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United States

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Se distraire à en mourir
2011, Pluriel
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
2006, Penguin Books
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
2005, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Wir amüsieren uns zu Tode: Urteilsbildung im Zeitalter der Unterhaltungsindustrie
1988, Fischer
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Amusing ourselves to death: public discourse in the age of show business
1986, Penguin Books
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Published in
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Other Titles
Amusing ourselves to death
Copyright Date
1985
Translation Of
Amusing ourselves to death
Translated From
English

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Translator
Reinhard Kaiser

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Paperback

ID Numbers

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OL26456367M
ISBN 10
3596242851

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"At different times in our history, different cities have been the focal point of a radiating American spirit."

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