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    "description": "From The New Yorker\u2019s fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch.\n\nFrom her creation of the first \u201cApproval Matrix\u201d in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning columns for The New Yorker, Emily Nussbaum has known all along that what we watch is who we are. In this collection, including two never-before-published essays, Nussbaum writes about her passion for television that began with stumbling upon \"Buffy the Vampire Slayer\"\u2014a show that was so much more than it appeared\u2014while she was a graduate student studying Victorian literature. What followed was a love affair with television, an education, and a fierce debate about whose work gets to be called \u201cgreat\u201d that led Nussbaum to a trailblazing career as a critic whose reviews said so much more about our culture than just what\u2019s good on television. Through these pieces, she traces the evolution of female protagonists over the last decade, the complex role of sexual violence on TV, and what to do about art when the artist is revealed to be a monster. And she explores the links between the television antihero and the rise of Donald Trump.\n\nThe book is more than a collection of essays. With each piece, Nussbaum recounts her fervent search, over fifteen years, for a new kind of criticism that resists the false hierarchy that elevates one form of culture over another. It traces her own struggle to punch through stifling notions of \u201cprestige television,\u201d searching for a wilder and freer and more varied idea of artistic ambition\u2014one that acknowledges many types of beauty and complexity, and that opens to more varied voices. It\u2019s a book that celebrates television as television, even as each year warps the definition of just what that might mean.",
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