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S'està carregant… I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution (2020 original; edició 2019)de Emily Nussbaum (Autor)
Informació de l'obraI Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution de Emily Nussbaum (2020)
   Cap No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. I really enjoyed most of these essays. A few gave me new ways to think about series I've seen, and others encouraged me to watch some shows that I haven't gotten around to yet. Of course, the opposite is also true! (  ) suzannekmoses | May 20, 2022 |  I spotted this in one of those free libraries you see on the street that's usually filled with dusty paperbacks. I recognized the cover from twitter and grabbed it immediately. Like TV, I Like to Watch is self referential jumping forwards and backwards from a Sopranos piece from 2007 to a sprawling profile of Ryan Murphy from 2018. Connections bubble to the surface. A conflicted love letter to Joan Rivers sets up a pan of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel . Nussbaum drops in before each essay to muse on them like a director on a DVD commentary track. Sometimes to reflect on the writing process or sometimes just to say, "One of the SUR ensemble tweeted a winky-face emoji to me after this piece came out." A healthy mix of pans, raves, think pieces and profiles, I Like to Watch is the perfect guide to the last 40 years of television. (  ) Mirror_Matt | Feb 3, 2022 | I always enjoy Nussbaum's reviews and profiles in the New Yorker; I remembered most of the pieces as I was reading them. It's easy to expect a "critic" to be a "reviewer" but this book, perhaps because of the framing introduction, serves well to remind me what criticism is; it's not advising me whether or not I will enjoy a certain show (although Nussbaum's evident joy in watching - and as she says - arguing with/about - television comes through strongly), it's examining the aspects of the creator and the creation in a variety of contexts (such as the mores of our times and of times past). The book includes an epic essay "Confessions of a Human Shield" which examines the age-old (but always relevant) question of whether it's okay to enjoy or support the art of a terrible person. The essay is particular to her experience as a woman of her generation (Gen X, same as mine), over time, across revelations, and she grapples thoughtfully about how those things change, without judging her past self, or even her present self. I found it refreshing and challenging and exciting to read. (  ) steveportigal | Dec 31, 2020 | Just excellent. The opening essay gives such a valuable frame. The essay on Me Too is the best I have read on the issue of what you do with the art when the artist is a problem. She covers so a range of shows, so may of which I love and in which I can find more value because of her criticism. ( ) eas7788 | Dec 14, 2020 | Very well written TV criticism about shows I do not watch and probably never will. Worth reading if only for helping me to understand some of the conversations I have overheard over the years. The author has a higher tolerance for violence and a bleak world view than I do. ( ) dmturner | Jun 29, 2020 | Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
"From her creation of the first 'Approval Matrix' in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prize-winning columns for The New Yorker, Emily Nussbaum has known all along that what we watch is who we are. In this collection, including several substantive, never-before-published essays, Nussbaum writes about her passion for television beginning with Buffy--as she writes, a show that was so much more than its critical assessment--the evolution of female protagonists over the last decade, the complex role of sexual violence on TV, and what to do about art when the artist is revealed to be a monster. And, she also explores the links between the television antihero and the rise of Trump. The book is an argument, not a collection of reviews. Through it all, Nussbaum recounts her fervent search, over fifteen years, for a new kind of criticism that resists the false hierarchy that places one kind of culture over another. It traces her own development as she has struggled to punch through stifling notions of 'prestige television,' searching for a wilder and freer and more varied idea of artistic ambition--one that acknowledges many types of beauty and complexity, and that opens to more varied voices. It's a book that celebrates television as television, even as each year warps the definition of just what that might mean"-- No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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