{"product_id":"books-i-like-to-watch-by-emily-nussbaum","title":"I Like to Watch","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e's fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic, a provocative collection of newand 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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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\u003e magazine 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e More 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE PEN\/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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 mostincisive, 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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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\u003e is a joy.\"\u003cb\u003e-Rebecca Traister\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53669238604049,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780525508984.jpg?v=1781507073","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-i-like-to-watch-by-emily-nussbaum","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}