Audience of One : Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America
Overview
New York Times chief television critic James Poniewozik offers a "darkly entertaining" (Carlos Lozada, Washington Post) history of mass media from the early 1980s to today, demonstrating how a volcanic, camera-hogging antihero merged with America's most powerful medium to become our forty-fifth president. In charting the seismic evolution of television from a monolithic mass medium into today's fractious confederation of spite-and-insult media subcultures, Poniewozik reveals how Donald Trump took advantage of these historic changes by constantly reinventing himself: from a boastful cartoon zillionaire; to 1990s self-parodic sitcom fixture; to The Apprentice reality-TV star; and finally to Twitter-mad, culture-warring demagogue. Already lauded as a "brilliant and daring" (Annalisa Quinn, NPR) work that defines a generation, Audience of One emerges as a classic in cultural criticism.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781631498152
- ISBN-10: 1631498150
- Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
- Publish Date: September 2020
- Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.6 pounds
- Page Count: 352
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