{"product_id":"2940169153439","title":"I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003e\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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 showrunnersamp;mdash;Kenya Barris, Jenji Kohan, and Ryan Murphyamp;mdash;as well as examinations of the legacies of Norman Lear and Joan Rivers. The audiobook 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore than a collection of reviews, the audiobook 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 ambitionamp;mdash;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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47122986107120,"sku":"2940169153439","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169153439_p0.jpg?v=1763673972","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169153439","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}