You are what you watch : how movies and TV affect everything
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Published
New York : Workman Publishing, 2023.
Edition
1st.
Physical Desc
228 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
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Published
New York : Workman Publishing, 2023.
Format
Book
Edition
1st.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"In You Are What You Watch, 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 through entertainment. Virtually anyone who hasever 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. Fromthe 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"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Hickey, W. (2023). You are what you watch: how movies and TV affect everything (1st.). Workman Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hickey, Walt. 2023. You Are What You Watch: How Movies and TV Affect Everything. Workman Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hickey, Walt. You Are What You Watch: How Movies and TV Affect Everything Workman Publishing, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Hickey, Walt. You Are What You Watch: How Movies and TV Affect Everything 1st., Workman Publishing, 2023.
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