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Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as television)
avg rating 4.08 — 20,350 ratings — published 2002
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 68 times as television)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,060,787 ratings — published 2011
The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as television)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,812 ratings — published 2012
The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s: An Oral History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as television)
avg rating 4.14 — 12,105 ratings — published 2020
Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as television)
avg rating 3.72 — 9,918 ratings — published 2016
Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as television)
avg rating 3.92 — 10,432 ratings — published 2024
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as television)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,685 ratings — published 2019
The War for Late Night: When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as television)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,744 ratings — published 2010
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as television)
avg rating 4.17 — 39,388 ratings — published 1985
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as television)
avg rating 3.85 — 558,752 ratings — published 2014
Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as television)
avg rating 3.66 — 3,551 ratings — published 2008
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as television)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,020,210 ratings — published 2008
TV (the Book): Two Experts Pick the Greatest American Shows of All Time
by (shelved 33 times as television)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,923 ratings — published 2016
Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as television)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,548 ratings — published 2013
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as television)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,518,135 ratings — published 2022
Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as television)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,219 ratings — published 2012
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
by (shelved 32 times as television)
avg rating 3.86 — 514,936 ratings — published 2011
I Am America (And So Can You!)
by (shelved 31 times as television)
avg rating 3.90 — 84,604 ratings — published 2007
Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And All the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as television)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,408 ratings — published 2013
I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as television)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,892 ratings — published 2011
The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family (The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as television)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,791 ratings — published 1995
Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as television)
avg rating 3.76 — 14,605 ratings — published 2011
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as television)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,208,473 ratings — published 2009
The Late Shift: Letterman, Leno & the Network Battle for the Night (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as television)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,664 ratings — published 1994
The Secret History of Twin Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as television)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,195 ratings — published 2016
The Sopranos Sessions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as television)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,327 ratings — published 2019
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between)
by (shelved 22 times as television)
avg rating 3.94 — 167,259 ratings — published 2016
Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as television)
avg rating 4.10 — 18,815 ratings — published 2010
The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as television)
avg rating 4.31 — 136,698 ratings — published 2024
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 21 times as television)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,766,241 ratings — published 2010
The Daily Show (The Audiobook): An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests
by (shelved 21 times as television)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,847 ratings — published 2016
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as television)
avg rating 3.94 — 407,670 ratings — published 2022
Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as television)
avg rating 4.51 — 2,608 ratings — published 2008
All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as television)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,429 ratings — published 2018
The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as television)
avg rating 3.81 — 15,471 ratings — published 1990
The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There (ebook)
by (shelved 19 times as television)
avg rating 4.22 — 36,814 ratings — published 2022
Jim Henson: The Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as television)
avg rating 4.03 — 15,637 ratings — published 2013
The Running Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as television)
avg rating 3.88 — 171,784 ratings — published 1982
Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as television)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,620 ratings — published 2009
Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as television)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,357 ratings — published 2005
Welcome to Dunder Mifflin: The Ultimate Oral History of The Office (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as television)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,798 ratings — published 2021
In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as television)
avg rating 3.84 — 7,984 ratings — published 2016
The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line (Veronica Mars, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as television)
avg rating 3.98 — 46,223 ratings — published 2014
My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as television)
avg rating 3.90 — 15,230 ratings — published 2011
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as television)
avg rating 3.88 — 107,746 ratings — published 2007
The Twilight Zone Companion (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as television)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,122 ratings — published 1982
Disney High: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel's Tween Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as television)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,458 ratings — published 2024
The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-present (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as television)
avg rating 4.38 — 184 ratings — published 1979
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as television)
avg rating 3.91 — 46,328 ratings — published 1974
American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as television)
avg rating 3.93 — 24,974 ratings — published 2009
“[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if we are guilty, it all depends on us. We pull the strings of the catastrophe, so we can also save ourselves simply by changing our lives. What is really hard for us (at least in the West) to accept is that we are reduced to the role of a passive observer who sits and watches what our fate will be. To avoid this impotence, we engage in frantic, obsessive activities. We recycle old paper, we buy organic food, we install long-lasting light bulbs—whatever—just so we can be sure that we are doing something. We make our individual contribution like the soccer fan who supports his team in front of a TV screen at home, shouting and jumping from his seat, in the belief that this will somehow influence the game's outcome.”
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“The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.”
― Against Empire
― Against Empire
