Emily Nussbaum
Autore di I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
Opere di Emily Nussbaum
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Nussbaum, Emily
- Data di nascita
- 1966-02-20
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Attività lavorative
- critic
- Organizzazioni
- The New Yorker
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Pulitzer Prize (Criticism, 2016)
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Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 3
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 320
- Popolarità
- #73,923
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 10
- ISBN
- 6
They're fairly varied. Some are short commentaries on individual shows, others use specific shows to make larger points, and some are rather broader, like an essay on the subject of product placement in TV. There are also some profiles of particular showrunners.
Nussbaum writes with a distinctly feminist sensibility, although it is a variety particularly her own, as someone who enjoys edgy, raunchy humor and sees a valid place for stories about sexual assault and violence against women on TV, but who also has very strong feelings about the way television, and especially the shows that get labeled as "prestige television," so overwhelmingly center the straight white male perspective both in front of and behind the cameras, and about the ways in which stories more squarely aimed at women tend to be treated dismissively.
She's a good, interesting writer making some good, interesting points, and, somewhat to my surprise, I found that even when she was talking about shows I'd never seen -- which was probably at least half of them -- she almost always still easily kept my attention. And, really, I'd say this entire collection might be worth it just for the long, thoughtful essay she wrote in the wake of #metoo, grappling in a deeply honest way with the impossible question of how much it's possible to separate art from artist and what we can or ought to do with good art by terrible people.… (altro)