Emily Nussbaum: Culture, Criticism and TV Today

‘Criticism is a form of theatre,’ Emily Nussbaum has said. ‘I’m writing for an audience and I don’t want to bore them.’
As the New Yorker‘s TV critic, Nussbaum has won a large and devoted international audience by giving contemporary television the incisive, sophisticated and entertaining criticism it deserves. Join this peerless critic and chronicler of popular culture for a talk about art and storytelling on screen.
Presented in partnership with Melbourne Writers Festival.

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Emily Nussbaum is the television critic for the New Yorker. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2016. She’s currently at work on an anthology and a book about reality television.

Bhakthi Puvanenthiran is Managing Editor of Crikey, writing mainly on politics and the media. Previously Bhakthi was a journalist and editor at the Age and Sydney Morning Herald covering arts, entertainment and business. She co-hosted the podcast Hard Bargain, is a regular media commentator and s... Read more
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