Ep. - 1041 - THE INVENTION OF REALITY TV WITH EMILY NUSSBAUM, AUTHOR OF CUE THE SUN!: THE INVENTION OF REALITY TV
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Kate Casey
4.4 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Emily Nussbaum is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she’s worked since 2011, originally as the magazine’s television critic. In 2016, she won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism. She is the author of Cue The Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV.
Who invented reality television, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre? And why can’t we look away? In this revelatory, deeply reported account of the rise of “dirty documentary”—from its contentious roots in radio to the ascent of Donald Trump—Emily Nussbaum unearths the origin story of the genre that ate the world, as told through the lively voices of the people who built it. At once gimlet-eyed and empathetic, Cue the Sun! explores the morally charged, funny, and sometimes tragic consequences of the hunt for something real inside something fake.
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| 0:46.7 | Welcome back for another episode of Reality Life with Kate Casey. |
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| 0:59.1 | It is called Q the Sun, The Invention of Reality TV, and it is written by Pulitzer Prize winning author and the New Yorker critic Emily Nussbaum. |
| 1:09.0 | It's about one of my favorite subjects obviously. |
| 1:12.0 | What is it about reality television that we can't look away from? |
| 1:16.5 | And why is it considered the most dangerous pop culture genre? The truth is, most of the stories |
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