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Amusing Ourselves to Death

  • Neil Postman,
  • Neil Postman

4.13

24 ratings

Amusing Ourselves to Death is a prophetic look at what happens when politics, journalism, education, and even religion become subject to the demands of entertainment. It is also a blueprint for regaining control of our media, so that they can serve our highest goals.

Genres

  • Mass media
  • Influence
  • Television broadcasting
  • Social aspects
  • Social aspects of Television broadcasting
  • Nonfiction
  • Performing Arts
  • Sociology
  • Culturele invloeden
  • Televisie
  • open_syllabus_project
  • Médias
  • Television
  • Aspect social
  • CHR 1986
  • PRO Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
  • Argumentation
  • Télévision
  • Politische Kultur
  • Fernsehen
  • Médias - Aspect social
  • Télévision - Aspect social
  • Médias - Influence
  • Mass media, united states, history
  • Television broadcasting, social aspects
  • Mass media, social aspects
  • Media Control
  • Electronic Entertainment
  • Education
  • Society
  • Dian shi jie mu
  • Ying xiang
  • Wen yu huo dong
  • Chuan bo mei jie
  • Yan jiu
  • Mass media--influence
  • Mass media--united states
  • P94 .p63 1986
  • P 94 p857a 1985a
  • 302.2/34
  • Media - general & miscellaneous
  • Media - theory & philosophy
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About the authors

  • Neil Postman

    8 March 1931 - 5 October 2003

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    49 ratings · 44 works

  • Neil Postman

    4.13

    24 ratings · 17 works

Editions

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    Di 1 ban

    Zhong xin chu ban she

    2015

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    Blackstone Pub

    Oct 20, 2010

  • Edition cover

    Pluriel

    2011

  • Edition cover

    Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt

    January 1, 1985

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51.-60. Tausend: Mai 1990

Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag

1990-05

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    Unabridged edition

    Blackstone Audiobooks, Blackstone Pub

    April 1994

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    Penguin Books

    1986

  • Edition cover

    Viking

    1985

  • Edition cover

    Penguin (Non-Classics)

    2005

  • Edition cover

    20th anniversary ed.

    Penguin Books

    2006

  • Edition cover

    Penguin USA, Inc.

    2009

  • Edition cover

    Heinemann

    1986

  • Edition cover

    Blackstone Audio

    2010

  • Edition cover

    Pearson Education, Limited

    2007

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    Flammarion

    1986

  • Edition cover

    Fischer

    1988

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    Penguin Books

    1985

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    Methuen

    1987