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Being There in the Age of Trump (Hardcover)
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Being There in the Age of Trump (Hardcover)
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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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