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词条 Jon Ronson
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  1. Biography

     Personal life  Writing career 

  2. Radio

  3. Music

  4. Television

  5. Films

  6. Works

     Books  Filmography 

  7. References

  8. External links

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}}Jon Ronson (born 10 May 1967) is a Welsh journalist and documentary filmmaker whose works include The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004) and The Psychopath Test (2011). He has been described as a gonzo journalist,[1] becoming a faux-naïf character in his stories.[2]

He produces informal but sceptical investigations of controversial fringe politics and science. He has published nine books and his work has appeared in British publications such as The Guardian, City Life and Time Out. He has made several BBC Television documentary films and two documentary series for Channel 4.

Biography

Personal life

Ronson was born in Cardiff in Wales and attended Cardiff High School. He worked for CBC Radio (since renamed Capital South Wales) in Cardiff before moving to London for a degree in Media Studies at the Polytechnic of Central London.[3] Ronson, who is culturally Jewish,[4] is a "distinguished supporter" of Humanists UK.[5][6] He is married to Elaine Patterson, with whom he has a son.[7] Ronson is a supporter of the football team Arsenal and has spoken of his "adoration" of the club.[8]

Writing career

Ronson's first book, Clubbed Class (1994), is a travelogue in which he bluffs his way into a jet set lifestyle, in search of the world's finest holiday.[9]

His second book, Adventures with Extremists (2001) chronicles his experiences with people labelled as extremists. Subjects in the book include David Icke, Randy Weaver, Omar Bakri Muhammad, Ian Paisley, Alex Jones, and Thom Robb. Ronson also follows independent investigators of secretive groups such as the Bilderberg Group.[10] The narrative tells of Ronson's attempts to infiltrate the "shadowy cabal" fabled, by these conspiracy theorists, to rule the world.[11] The book was described by Louis Theroux as a "funny and compulsively readable picaresque adventure through a paranoid shadow world."[12] Variety magazine announced in September 2005 that Them was purchased by Universal Pictures for a feature film.[13]

Ronson contributed the memoir A Fantastic Life to the Picador anthology Truth or Dare, in 2004.[14]

Ronson's third book, The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004), deals with the secret New Age unit within the United States Army called the First Earth Battalion. Ronson investigates people such as Major General Albert Stubblebine III, former head of intelligence, who believe that people can walk through walls with the right mental preparation, and that goats can be killed simply by staring at them. Much was based on the ideas of Lt. Col. Jim Channon, ret., who wrote the First Earth Battalion Operations Manual in 1979, inspired by the emerging Human Potential Movement of California. The book suggests that these New Age military ideas mutated over the decades to influence interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay. An eponymous film of the book was released in 2009, in which Ronson's investigations were fictionalised and structured around a journey to Iraq. Ronson is played by the actor Ewan McGregor in the film.[15]

Ronson's fourth book, Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness (2006; Picador and Guardian Books) is a collection of his Guardian articles, mostly those concerning his domestic life. A companion volume was What I Do: More True Tales of Everyday Craziness (2007).[16][17]

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (2011) is Ronson's fifth book. In it, he explores the nature of psychopathic behaviour, learning how to apply the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, and investigating its reliability. He interviews people in facilities for the criminally insane as well as potential psychopaths in corporate boardrooms.[18][19] The book's findings have been rejected by The Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy and by Robert D. Hare, creator of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist.[20][21] Hare described the book as "frivolous, shallow, and professionally disconcerting".[21]The Jon Ronson Mysteries (2012) is Ronson's sixth book.[22]

Ronson's book, So You've Been Publicly Shamed (2015), concerns the effects of public humiliation in the internet age.[23]

Radio

Ronson's main radio work is the production and presentation of a BBC Radio 4 programme, Jon Ronson on...[24] The program has been nominated for a Sony award four times.[25] In August 2008, Radio 4 aired "Robbie Williams and Jon Ronson Journey to the Other Side", a documentary by Jon Ronson about pop star Williams' fascination with UFOs and the paranormal.[26]

In the early 1990s, Ronson was offered the position of sidekick on Terry Christian's Show on Manchester radio station KFM.[27] Ronson also co-presented a KFM show with Craig Cash, who went on to write and perform in The Royle Family and Early Doors.[28]

Ronson contributes to Public Radio International in the United States, particularly the program This American Life. He has contributed segments to the episodes "Them", "Family Physics", "Naming Names", "It's Never Over", "Habeas Schmaebeas", "The Spokesman", "Pro Se", and "The Psychopath Test".[29]

Ronson hosts the podcast The Butterfly Effect, which was released in November 2017 by Audible.[30] The show focuses on internet pornography, and Fabian Thylmann and PornHub's effect on the industry.

Music

In the late 1980s, Ronson replaced Mark Radcliffe as the keyboard player for the Frank Sidebottom band for a number of performances.[31]

Ronson was the manager of the Manchester indie band Man From Delmonte.[32]

Television

Ronson presented the late nineties talk show "For The Love Of...",[33] in which each week he would interview a gathering of guests and experts on different phenomena and conspiracy theories.[34] Ronson has also appeared as a guest on many shows, such as As Yet Untitled.

Films

Ronson sold the film rights to The Men Who Stare at Goats and a movie of the same name was released in 2009 as a comedy war film directed by Grant Heslov and written by Peter Straughan. According to Ronson's DVD-commentary, the journalist-character Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) did experience some elements of Ronson's self-recounted story from the book. However, unlike Ronson, Wilton was an American from Ann Arbor. Also, unlike Ronson, Wilton went to Iraq.[36]

In the process of visiting the set during the shoot, Ronson began a collaborative writing project with Straughan.[35] This was the screenplay for Frank, a feature film loosely based on the Sidebottom story.[36]

Ronson co-wrote with Bong Joon-Ho the screenplay for the 2017 Netflix film Okja.[37]

Works

Books

Date first published Title Publisher information
27 October 1994 Clubbed Class 1-85793-320-6}}
2001 Adventures with Extremists 0-330-37545-8}}
Simon & Schuster, hardcover, 2002, {{ISBN|0-7432-2707-7}}
Simon & Schuster, paperback, 1 January 2003, {{ISBN|0-7432-3321-2}}
19 November 2004 The Men Who Stare at Goats 0-330-37547-4}}
3 November 2006 True Tales of Everyday Craziness 0-330-44832-3}}
2 November 2007 What I Do: More True Tales Of Everyday Craziness 0-330-45373-4}}
12 May 2011 The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry 978-1-59448-801-6}}
22 November 2011 The Amazing Adventures of Phoenix Jones Riverhead Books, e-book
30 October 2012 The Jon Ronson Mysteries 978-1-59463-137-5}}
27 March 2014 The True Story that Inspired the Movie 978-1-4472-7137-6}}
12 March 2015 So You've Been Publicly Shamed 978-0-33049-228-7}}
October 2016 The Elephant in the Room: A Journey into the Trump Campaign and the 'Alt-Right E-book, Kindle single

Filmography

  • The Ronson Mission (1994) BBC 2
  • New York to California: A Great British Odyssey (1996) Channel 4
  • Hotel Auschwitz (1996) BBC Radio 4
  • Tottenham Ayatollah (1997) Channel 4
  • Critical Condition (1997) Channel 4
  • Dr Paisley, I Presume (1998) Channel 4
  • New Klan (1999) Channel 4
  • Secret Rulers of the World (2001) Channel 4
  • The Double Life of Jonathan King (2002) Channel 4
  • Kidneys for Jesus (2003)[38] Channel 4
  • I Am, Unfortunately, Randy Newman (2004)[39] Channel 4
  • Crazy Rulers of the World (2004) Channel 4
    • Part 1: "The Men Who Stare at Goats"[40]
    • Part 2: "Funny Torture"[41]
    • Part 3: "The Psychic Footsoldiers"[42]
  • Death in Santaland (2007) More 4, about a foiled school shooting plot in the Christmas-themed town of North Pole, Alaska.
  • Reverend Death (2008) Channel 4, about George Exoo, an advocate of euthanasia.[43][44]
  • Stanley Kubrick's Boxes (2008)
  • Revelations (2009)
  • Escape and Control (2011)[45]
  • Frank (2014)
  • Okja (2017)[46]
  • Comrade Detective (2017) as Himself

References

1. ^Relative to the Gonzo characterization: 1) Ronson, Jon, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/feb/22/huntersthompson 'I've gotta get my elephant tusks back'], The Guardian, 22 February 2005. The article subtitle read in part: "... Hunter S. Thompson created a new style of writing – gonzo – and a generation of followers. Jon Ronson explains why he became one of them"; the article was written the day after Thompson's death by suicide; Ronson himself in the article does not lay claim to the term to describe himself; and 2) ____, James, Ffresh 2011 Programme Goes Live" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110122065322/http://ffresh.com/en/2011/01/13/ffresh-2011-programme-goes-live/ |date=22 January 2011 }}, website for Ffresh: Student Moving Image Festival of Wales, 13 January 2011. "Highlights include sessions with … gonzo journalist Jon Ronson ...." Both retrieved 17 February 2011.
2. ^Rosenbaum, Ron (2002), [https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/13/books/beyond-the-fringe.html "Beyond the Fringe"], The New York Times (13 January issue).
3. ^Nathan Bevan, Who is Jon Ronson?, WalesOnline.co.uk, retrieved 13 June 2011.
4. ^{{cite news |last=Ronson |first=Jon |date=21 October 2000 |title=Getting religious with Nicky Gumbel |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/oct/21/weekend7.weekend |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=27 May 2015}}
5. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.humanism.org.uk/about/people/distinguished-supporters |title=Distinguished Supporters |publisher=Humanism.org.uk |date= |accessdate=8 June 2010}}
6. ^{{cite web |url=https://humanism.org.uk/about/our-people/patrons/ |title=Patrons of the BHA |publisher=British Humanist Association |accessdate=22 May 2015}}
7. ^{{cite news |author=Jon Ronson |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2007/jul/28/weekend.jonronson |title=Jon Ronson on telling his son the worst swearword in the world | Life and style |publisher=The Guardian |date=28 July 2007 |accessdate=1 August 2013 |location=London}}
8. ^{{cite web |last=Mangan |first=Andrew |title=Arsene at 1000 + Arsecast 309 with Jon Ronson |url=http://arseblog.com/2014/03/arsene-at-1000-arsecast-309-with-jon-ronson/ |publisher=Arseblog |accessdate=22 March 2014}}
9. ^{{cite web |title=GoodReads book listing |url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37472.Clubbed_Class |work=GoodReads |accessdate=26 November 2012}}
10. ^{{cite web |last=Rakoff |first=Joanna |title=Jon Ronson |url=http://www.salon.com/2002/03/14/ronson_2/ |work=Salon |accessdate=10 November 2012}}
11. ^{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Okg6WBbMjzQC&lpg=PP1&dq=them%20adventures%20with%20extremists&pg=PA91#v=onepage&q=&f=false |title=Them:Adventures in Extemism p91 |accessdate=4 November 2009 |isbn=9781439126738 |author1=Ronson |first1=Jon |date=28 June 2011}}
12. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/Archive/Article/0,4273,4166306,00.html |title=Stranger than fiction |accessdate=4 March 2009 |last=Theroux |first=Louis |authorlink=Louis Theroux |date=7 April 2001 |work=The Guardian |location=London}}
13. ^{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/2005/film/markets-festivals/them-makes-way-to-u-1117929334/|title='Them' makes way to U|last=Fleming|first=Michael|date=|work=Variety|accessdate=20 November 2012}}
14. ^{{cite web |title=GoodReads book profile |url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/616081.Truth_Or_Dare |work=GoodReads |accessdate=26 November 2012}}
15. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234548/ |title=The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) |work=The Internet Movie Database |date= |accessdate=21 June 2009}}
16. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.jonronson.com/news.html |title=news: jonronson.com |publisher=jonronson.com |date= |accessdate=21 June 2009 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141228103453/http://www.jonronson.com/news.html |archivedate=28 December 2014 |df=dmy-all }}
17. ^{{cite web |title=GoodReads book profile |url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2135080.What_I_Do |work=GoodReads |accessdate=26 November 2012}}
18. ^{{cite web |last=Tartakovsky |first=Margarita |title=Psychcentral book review |url=http://psychcentral.com/lib/2011/the-psychopath-test-a-journey-through-the-madness-industry/ |work=PsychCentral |accessdate=26 November 2012}}
19. ^{{cite news |last=Blincoe |first=Nicholas |title=The Telegraph book review |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/8565585/The-Psychopath-Test-A-Journey-through-the-Madness-Industry-by-Jon-Ronson-review.html |work=The Telegraph |accessdate=26 November 2012 |location=London |date=13 June 2011}}.
20. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.psychopathysociety.org/en/10-news/news/133-general-ronson-commentary-2.html|title=General Ronson Commentary|last=|first=|date=|website=|accessdate=9 June 2014}}
21. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.psychopathysociety.org/images/hare%20commentary%20on%20ronson%20april%2017%202012.pdf|title=A Commentary on Ronson's The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry|last=|first=|date=|website=|accessdate=9 June 2014}}
22. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.neontommy.com/news/2012/11/book-review-lost-seathe-jon-ronson-mysteries|title=Book Review: "Lost At Sea:The Jon Ronson Mysteries"|first=Miles|last=Winston|publisher=|access-date=20 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402165100/http://www.neontommy.com/news/2012/11/book-review-lost-seathe-jon-ronson-mysteries|archive-date=2 April 2015|dead-url=yes|df=dmy-all}}
23. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/books/review/jon-ronsons-so-youve-been-publicly-shamed.html|title=Jon Ronson’s ‘So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed’|last=Sicha|first=Choire|date=2015-04-17|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-06-21|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}
24. ^{{cite news |last=Maslin |first=Janet |title=Running Down a Sanity Checklist |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/17/books/the-psychopath-test-by-jon-ronson-review.html |work=The New York Times |accessdate=27 November 2012 |date=16 May 2011}}
25. ^{{cite web |title=Simon Jacobs profile |url=http://www.ubcmedia.com/uniqueproductions/people/ |work=UBC Media |accessdate=27 November 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140425203722/http://www.ubcmedia.com/uniqueproductions/people/ |archivedate=25 April 2014 |df=dmy-all }}
26. ^{{cite web |title=BBC Radio show profile |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/robbieandjonjourney.shtml |work=BBC News |accessdate=27 November 2012}}
27. ^{{cite web |title=Aural History: John Ronson |url=http://www.tourdates.co.uk/londontourdates/issue-000/2007/06/15/23-aural-history-john-ronson |work=TourDates |accessdate=27 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150725110202/http://www.tourdates.co.uk/londontourdates/issue-000/2007/06/15/23-aural-history-john-ronson |archive-date=25 July 2015 |dead-url=yes |df=dmy-all }}
28. ^{{cite web |title=About Jon Ronson |url=http://www.jonronson.com/jon_biog.html |accessdate=27 November 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100105225844/http://jonronson.com/jon_biog.html |archivedate=5 January 2010 |df=dmy-all }}
29. ^{{cite web |title=Jon Ronson radio archive page |url=http://www.thisamericanlife.org/contributors/jon-ronson |work=This American Life |accessdate=27 November 2012}}
30. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/08/mrs-fletcher-tom-perrotta-the-butterfly-effect-jon-ronson-porn-mainstream-culture/536220/|title=Jon Ronson and Tom Perrotta Explore the Aftershocks of Porn|last=Gilbert|first=Sophie|date=2017-08-09|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-22}}
31. ^{{cite news |last=Ronson |first=Jon |title=Oh blimey! |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2006/may/31/art.popandrock |work=The Guardian |accessdate=27 November 2012 |location=London |date=31 May 2006}}
32. ^{{cite web |last=Mostyn |first=Nicola |title=Mind blowing! |url=http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/entertainment/arts/s/136/136258_mind_blowing.html |work=Manchester Evening News |accessdate=27 November 2012}}
33. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402642/|title=For the Love of...|publisher=|via=www.imdb.com}}
34. ^{{cite web |title=For the Love of... page on JonRonson.com |url=http://www.jonronson.com/for_the_love_of.html |accessdate=27 November 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130103034814/http://www.jonronson.com/for_the_love_of.html |archivedate=3 January 2013 |df=dmy-all }}
35. ^1 The Men Who Stare at Goats, DVD commentary by Jon Ronson. OV 21370. Overture Films, US. 2009.
36. ^Donald Clarke, "First get Michael Fassbender for your film. Then give him a giant comedy head", The Irish Times, 9 February 2013
37. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cannes-netflixs-okja-trailer-reveals-bong-joon-hos-newest-creature-1004972|title=Cannes: Netflix's 'Okja' Trailer Reveals Bong Joon Ho's Newest Creature|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=2017-06-21|language=en}}
38. ^{{Citation|last=Brian Birmingham|title=Kidneys for Jesus|date=2014-08-28|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OovxGA8_uNY|accessdate=2018-04-30}}
39. ^{{Citation|last=MrRandomGuySr|title=I Am, Unfortunately, Randy Newman|date=2013-02-15|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KX73Cwx61U|accessdate=2018-04-30}}
40. ^{{Citation|last=Universal_Eye|title=Crazy Rulers of the World - part 1 - The Men Who Stare At Goats|date=2013-12-21|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAMIvDmWbQs|accessdate=2018-04-30}}
41. ^{{Citation|last=Universal_Eye|title=Crazy Rulers of the World - Part 2 - Funny Torture|date=2013-07-14|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUf8KBjKBpM|accessdate=2018-04-30}}
42. ^{{Citation|last=TheDocumentaryChannel103|title=Channel 4 - Jon Ronson - Crazy Rulers of the World - Episode 3 - The Psychic Footsoldiers (2004)|date=2014-05-06|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHY7BWo1Q4c|accessdate=2018-04-30}}
43. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/health/microsites/R/reverend_death/|title=Reverend Death|last=|first=|date=|work=Channel4.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090821032910/http://www.channel4.com/health/microsites/R/reverend_death/|archive-date=August 21, 2009|dead-url=yes|accessdate=21 June 2009}}
44. ^[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2008/may/12/mentalhealth.health 'I make it look like they died in their sleep'] by Jon Ronson, The Guardian, 12 May 2008
45. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS67CXqxH04 |title=Trailer | Escape and Control | Jon Ronson |publisher=YouTube |date=23 August 2011 |accessdate=3 April 2013}}
46. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.jonronson.com/okja.html|title = Okja | accessdate=17 June 2017}}

External links

  • {{Official website}}
  • Picador UK publisher's author page
  • [https://archive.is/20140811234440/http://www.jonronson.com/ronsonon.html Jon Ronson On...] radio programme
  • [https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jonronson Ronson's Guardian Column Archive]
  • {{TED speaker}}
  • {{C-SPAN|Jon Ronson}}
    • [https://web.archive.org/web/20160303210438/http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/168649-1/Jon+Ronson.aspx Booknotes interview with Ronson on Them, March 24, 2002.]
    • In Depth interview with Ronson, May 3, 2015.
Interviews
  • My friend the extremist: Omar Bakri, This American Life, 7 December 2001
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20060813135705/http://dir.salon.com/story/people/conv/2002/03/14/ronson/index.html Interview], Joanna Smith Rakoff, Salon.com, 14 March 2002
  • Interview, Andrew Lawless, threemonkeysonline.com, February 2005
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20050309215651/http://www.rinf.com/articles/jon-ronson-q-a.html Interview], rinf.com, February 2005
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070511214829/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/elizabeth.ercocklly/jon.htm Biographical Interview], Anthony Brockway, ntlworld.com, May 2005
  • Video interview{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Robert Llewellyn on Carpool, blip.tv
  • [https://archive.is/20130127213816/http://www.littleatoms.com/jonronson.htm Jon Ronson audio interviews (2005–2009)], littleatoms.com
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