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“l learned everything I know from television, and you can learn everything I know from this book.” (RuPaul)
When he moved to New York in 1982, Fenton Bailey saw the world go pop.
“Like a superheated kernel of corn, the world has gone Pop. Drag has become mainstream. Being gay became cool. From being the criminal outsider, being queer has even become representative of the way the outsider voice is common to us all.”
Together with filmmaking partner Randy Barbato, their production company World of Wonder would pioneer the genre of reality TV and chronicle the emerging screen age through their extraordinary films, outrageous subjects and unapologetic point of view.
Making films about club kids, royalty, hustlers, and televangelists, and working with icons such as such as Britney Spears, Tammy Faye Bakker, and RuPaul, the book is packed with glorious insider gossip and amazing celebrity stories. These are the riotous tales behind the shows that would make screen-agers of us all.
From the moment we wake up to the last thing at night we are living in the screen age. Checking our phones, working on our computers, updating our social media, and finally passing out in front of the TV.
Seen through the lens of their work, ScreenAge tells the broader story of how television has transformed our reality, and how we are evolving from homo sapiens to video sapiens.
“Fenton is like the Forrest Gump of popular and tabloid culture. If it created headlines, he was there.” (Graham Norton)
In embracing those freaks or those who have fallen from grace, Bailey’s career has a deep moral seriousness and celebrates every kind of difference, queer and otherwise.” (Suzanne Moore, The Daily Telegraph)
