American Studies 2200E Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 23: Rodney King, Neal Gabler, National Conversation
28 Apr 2017
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Neal gabler, excerpts from life: the movie-how entertainment conquered reality. Life is a movie: the idea of entertainmentizaition (entertainment has been injected into every element of life) Used to go to the movies to escape then go back to real life. Now life cannot be escaped (we never leave the theatre) Problem: entertainment being pushed into high culture and history (the expansion of entertainment has made life seem less complicated) The fabricated, inauthentic and the theatrical were driving out the natural, the genuine and the spontaneous from life until reality itself had been converted into stagecraft. The most important cultural transformation in this country in the twentieth century: Life itself was gradually becoming a medium all its own, like television, radio, print, and film, and that all of us were becoming at once performance artists in and audiences for a grand, ongoing show.
