Life: The Movie

    1. Discuss the significance of celebrity and lifies. [Begin research with Introduction and Chapter 4.] 2. Entertainment is arguably the most pervasive, powerful and ineluctable force of our time. [See the Introduction in Life: The Movie.] 3. Discuss the differences between Art and Entertainment and why the masses preferred Entertainment. [Begin with Chapter 1.] 4. Why were the movies such a popular entertainment? [Begin with Chapters 1, 2.] 5. Was journalism an early “portal through which entertainment slithered into life and then conquered it? Explain how and why this was the case. [Begin with Chapter 2.] 6. In what ways did television continue the advance of the graphic revolution and the emphasis of entertainment in the culture? [Begin with Chapter 2.] 7. How had entertainment become a standard of value for reality itself? “Everything in the public sphere was now to be measured by entertainment...entertainment had finally escaped the new and seized life.” [Begin with Chapter 2.] 8. Define the secondary effect and explain how it was and is evident in one of the following areas: politics, individuals, athletics, religion, literature, the fine arts, education. [Begin with Chapter 3.] 9. Is there a moral equivalence between religion and celebrity? [Begin with Chapter 4.] 10. Gabler asserts, “It is with criminality, perhaps, that one can best see just how the values of human entertainment usurped other, more traditional values.” Explain. [See Chapter 4.] 11. Define what Gable means by the mediated self. Define is meant by personal lifies. What are the consequences of a preoccupation with personal lifies for the individual and for society? [Begin with Chapter 5.]