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Author Mann, Lucas, author

Title Captive audience : on love and reality TV / Lucas Mann
Published New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018
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Description 258 pages ; 21 cm
Summary "An intimate portrait of a marriage intertwined with a meditation on reality TV that reveals surprising connections and the meaning of an authentic life"-- Provided by publisher
"In Lucas Mann's trademark vein-fiercely intelligent, self-deprecating, brilliantly observed, idiosyncratic, personal, funny, and infuriating--Captive Audience is an appreciation of reality television wrapped inside a love letter to his wife, with whom he shares the guilty pleasure of watching "real" people bare their souls in search of celebrity. Captive Audience resides at the intersection of popular culture with the personal; the exhibitionist impulse, with the schadenfreude of the vicarious, and in confronting some of our most suspect impulses achieves a heightened sense of what it means to live an authentic life and what it means to love a person." -- Publisher's description
Notes "A Vintage Books original" -- Title page verso
Subject Mann, Lucas -- Marriage.
Reality television programs -- Psychological aspects.
Television viewers -- Attitudes.
Love.
Genre/Form Reading nook.
LC no. 2017040585
ISBN 9780525435549 (paperback)
0525435549 (paperback)