{"product_id":"i-like-to-watch-book-emily-nussbaum-9780525508960","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 new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmily 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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\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 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMore 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE PEN\/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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 most incisive, 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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReading 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":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49540082467089,"sku":"GOR010036725","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49800766554385,"sku":"CIN0525508961G","price":3.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50147291037969,"sku":"CIN0525508961VG","price":3.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50353830232337,"sku":"CIN0525508961A","price":4.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51594962862353,"sku":"GOR010377507","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0525508961.jpg?v=1751444505","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/i-like-to-watch-book-emily-nussbaum-9780525508960","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}