To The Bone Analysis

Neil Postman was a Communications Professor at New York University, and author of the book “Amusing Ourselves to Death”. In this book, he creates a continuous argument about discourse in his time, explaining how different mediums, such as television, create a dialogue to show how we are brainwashed into believing the media because we do not register the content being broadcasted. In this paper, I am going to argue that the Netflix original, To the Bone, by Marti Noxon, was a serious attempt at being an informative and educational movie about eating disorders, but ended up being blanketed in layers of superficial discourse. Postman says that television, one of the more well-spoken of mediums, is a “beautiful spectacle” (86) because it is endless …show more content…
This movie was broadcasted as a serious movie, with introductory credits saying, “The film was created by and with individuals who have struggled with eating disorders, and it includes realistic depictions that may be challenging for some viewers.” This is like how in Amusing Ourselves to Death, Postman talks about how the program earlier mentioned was criticized by people of political power, and was “a critical test of television’s capacity to depart from entertainment mode and rise to the level of public instruction” …show more content…
To the Bone is just that; general information blanketed in layers of entertainment. “The New Statesman”, a popular online news website, posted an article written by Anna Leszkiewicz titled, “Don’t Watch Netflix’s “To the Bone””, heavily criticizes how the movie goes about portraying eating disorders, amongst other serious social