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You Are What You Watch : How Movies and TV Affect Everything by Walter Hickey (2023, Hardcover)

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Title: You Are What You Watch: How Movies and TV Affect Everything. Format: Book. UPC: 9781523515899.

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PublisherWorkman Publishing Company, Incorporated

ISBN-101523515899

ISBN-139781523515899

eBay Product ID (ePID)18059016211

Product Key Features

Book TitleYou Are What You Watch : How Movies and TV Affect Everything

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2023

TopicFilm / General, Television / General, Popular Culture

IllustratorYes

GenrePerforming Arts, Social Science

AuthorWalter Hickey

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height23 in

Item Weight25.8 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.9 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2023-020360

Reviews"Pulitzer Prize winner Hickey presents a refreshing analysis of media consumption... A worthy, fun dissection of pop culture that's full of infographics and data."-- Library Journal, starred review

Table Of ContentINTRODUCTION 1: HOW CULTURE AFFECTS OUR BODIES 2: HOW CULTURE CAPTURES US 3: HOW CULTURE RELFECTS US 4: HOW CULTURE CHANGES US 5: COMMERCE & CULTURE & COMMERCE 6: HOW CULTURE FUELS EMPIRES 7: HOW CULTURE SURVIVES 8: WHAT STORIES DO TO THEIR CREATORS INDEX SOURCES PHOTO CREDITS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

SynopsisVirtually anyone who has ever watched a profound movie, a powerful TV show, or read a moving novel understands that entertainment can and does affect us in surprising and significant ways. But did you know that our most popular forms of entertainment can have a direct physical effect on us, a measurable impact on society, geopolitics, the economy, and even the future itself? In You Are What You Watch , Walter Hickey, Pulitzer Prize winner and former chief culture writer at acclaimed data site FiveThirtyEight.com, proves how exactly how what we watch (and read and listen to) has a far greater effect on us and the world at large than we imagine.Employing a mix of research, deep reporting, and 100 data visualizations, Hickey presents the true power of entertainment and culture. From the decrease in shark populations after Jaws to the increase in women and girls taking up archery following The Hunger Games, You Are What You Watch proves its points not just with research and argument, but hard data. Did you know, for example, that crime statistics prove that violent movies actually lead to less real-world violence? And that the international rise of anime and Manga helped lift the Japanese economy out of the doldrums in the 1980s? Or that British and American intelligence agencies actually got ideas from the James Bond movies?In You Are What You Watch, readers will be given a nerdy, and sobering, celebration of popular entertainment and its surprising power to change the world., A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and data expert reveals the hidden power of entertainment through surprising research, charts, and graphs. You'll never look at a movie or TV show the same way again., Pulitzer Prize-winning author and data expert Walt Hickey explains the power of entertainment to change our biology, our beliefs, how we see ourselves, and how nations gain power. Virtually anyone who has ever watched a profound movie, a powerful TV show, or read a moving novel understands that entertainment can and does affect us in surprising and significant ways. But did you know that our most popular forms of entertainment can have a direct physical effect on us, a measurable impact on society, geopolitics, the economy, and even the future itself? In You Are What You Watch , Walter Hickey, Pulitzer Prize winner and former chief culture writer at acclaimed data site FiveThirtyEight.com, proves how exactly how what we watch (and read and listen to) has a far greater effect on us and the world at large than we imagine. Employing a mix of research, deep reporting, and 100 data visualizations, Hickey presents the true power of entertainment and culture. From the decrease in shark populations after Jaws to the increase in women and girls taking up archery following The Hunger Games, You Are What You Watch proves its points not just with research and argument, but hard data. Did you know, for example, that crime statistics prove that violent movies actually lead to less real-world violence? And that the international rise of anime and Manga helped lift the Japanese economy out of the doldrums in the 1980s? Or that British and American intelligence agencies actually got ideas from the James Bond movies? In You Are What You Watch, readers will be given a nerdy, and sobering, celebration of popular entertainment and its surprising power to change the world.

LC Classification NumberHM621.H47825 2023