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A review by katehoward
You Are What You Watch: How Movies and TV Affect Everything by Walter P. Hickey
slow-paced
2.0
I should have read the synopsis more clearly as I was hoping for something about how movies shape us interact with culture but this focused more on the physical response when we engage with media. I would also note that it focuses on a wide variety of media, there were some weird tangents I hated and were a drag to get through. Why the section on WWE?
The formatting was terrible. The graphs and illustrations were strangely placed in the middle of sentences requiring you to flip back and forth between pages. The graphs were labeled pretty poorly and often didn’t pertain to the information being discussed. The choice of having it double column was bad, and it would just randomly switch formatting styles. It made this already data heavy book even more cumbersome to read.
The formatting was terrible. The graphs and illustrations were strangely placed in the middle of sentences requiring you to flip back and forth between pages. The graphs were labeled pretty poorly and often didn’t pertain to the information being discussed. The choice of having it double column was bad, and it would just randomly switch formatting styles. It made this already data heavy book even more cumbersome to read.