Being There in the Age of Trump
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Being There in the Age of Trump

  1. 241 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Being There in the Age of Trump

About this book

Jerzy Kosinski's Being There (published in 1970 and adapted to film in 1979) was prescient in its vision of a simple man without discernible talent or political experience whose knowledge of the world comes almost exclusively from television. Yet his very shallowness establishes him as a TV celebrity and propels him to the pinnacle of American government. Both an incisive satire and a clarion call to resist the collectivizing force of the media that influences American life and shapes, distorts, and ultimately corrupts politics and culture, Being There offered a trenchant comment on the nature of "being" in the modern world of power. And it critiqued the tendency of Americans to seek mindless distraction rather than engagement and to find profundity in banal slogans and slick visuals. Issued a half century ago, Kosinski's warning not to let hollow imagery trump our good sense and become our new reality is even more urgent today. The first book-length examination of Kosinski in more than a decade, Being There in the Age of Trump goes beyond conventional literary and film analysis to a larger interdisciplinary and cultural study of a work still timely and popular.

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Information

Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2020
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781978782877
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Modern Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Being There in the Age of Trump
  3. Being There in the Age of Trump
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Preface
  10. Chronology
  11. Chapter 1
  12. Being Political
  13. Chapter 2
  14. Blank Page
  15. Chapter 3
  16. A Nation of Videots
  17. Chapter 4
  18. Being Seen
  19. Chapter 5
  20. “I Like to Watch”
  21. Chapter 6
  22. Disturbing the Roots
  23. Chapter 7
  24. Chance Encounters
  25. Bibliography
  26. Index
  27. About the Author

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