You Are What You Watch
How Movies and TV Affect Everything
New York : Workman Publishing, [2023], ©2023.
Format: Book
Description: x, 229 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Walt Hickey explores exactly how this thing we blithely call "entertainment" has such a tremendous effect on us. Through compelling reporting and research and the creation of dozens and dozens of colorful data visuals, Hickey shows how something like a movie or TV show not only has a direct physical effect on the viewer--how the chemistry of our breath changes with a movie's ups and downs, or a scary scene can be literally bloodcurdling--but also has a measurable impact on society, politics, the economy, and even the future.
Contents:
How culture affects our bodies -- How culture captures us -- How culture reflects us -- How culture changes us -- Commerce & culture & commerce -- How culture fuels empires -- What stories do to their creators.
Subjects:
Mass media -- Social aspects -- United States.
Mass media -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
Popular culture -- Social aspects -- United States.
Popular culture -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
Psychophysiology -- United States.
Sociobiology -- United States.
Mass media -- Social aspects -- United States.
Mass media -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
Popular culture -- Social aspects -- United States.
Popular culture -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
Psychophysiology -- United States.
Sociobiology -- United States.
ISBN:
9781523515899
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SOCIAL SCI Communicate Hic | Main (Downtown) | Nonfiction | Out (Due: 5/6/2024) |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-218) and index.