Twilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images from Plato to O.J.

I find Bordo's work, as always, resonant and timely. It is a strange experience reading the negative reviews on this site - every time I read Bordo I feel I have happened upon a gem.

That is, publicly comment on other people's evaluations of my work. I'm usually happy to let others decide the value of my writing...which is why I'm writing this--to encourage readers to judge "Twilight Zones" for themselves rather than on the impression created by the Kirkus Review and the second customer comment on this page. I don't care about the "stars" (I only rated myself because I was asked to.) But I do care about the misleading prominence of comments written by people whom I believe are not in touch with current cultural trends or their impact on our lives. Essays from "Twilight Zones" are being reprinted in first-year textbooks for undergraduate students. Yet the perception that this is an obscure, irrelevant, self-indulgent tome dominates this page. I think that's an extreme misrepresentation....

Bordo's Twilight Zones continues the powerful critical trajectory set up by her award-winning Unbearable Weight, showing how media impacts our daily lives in the most intricate ways. More than any other public intellectual writing today, Bordo's writing is a compelling and passionate analysis that clears up many forms of mystification, academic and cultural. This book provides new and complicated ways of understanding contemporary events and how they are created/represented in the mass media, and how these creations in turn work to shape our lives.