Walter Hickey You Are What You Watch (Hardback)

by Walter Hickey

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Further Details Title: You Are What You Watch Condition: New Subtitle: How Movies and TV Affect Everything Author: Walter Hickey Format: Hardback ISBN-10: 1523515899 EAN: 9781523515899 ISBN: 9781523515899 Publisher: Workman Adult Genre: Films & TV Topic: Society & Culture Release Date: 10/26/2023 Description: 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 , 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 econ

• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated
• Year: 2023
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781523515899
• Condition: Fine

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