![]() ![]() Her male classmates dismissed the show as a soapy teen drama, which is when Nussbaum began interrogating the structures of genre, gender, and quality within in a medium that still wasn’t considered to be real art. She describes watching the show when she was a grad student at NYU studying literature, and how it “spiked way of thinking entirely,” and gave her reason to believe that art centered on the perspectives of young women ought to be taken seriously. She begins with her essay on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the show that made her want to be a TV critic in the first place. ![]() Her recent essay collection, I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution, is a collection of 32 essays that include reviews, profiles of TV creators, and more general meditations on the television landscape, most of which were previously published in The New Yorker, where Nussbaum is the television critic. Emily Nussbaum is a critic who had been writing about television as an art form years before virtually anyone else considered it one, when it was still a point of pride for intellectuals to not have a TV set in their home. ![]()
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