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The platinum age of television : from I love Lucy to The walking dead, how TV became terrific / David Bianculli.
Author
Bianculli, David
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
New York : Doubleday, [2016]
©2016
Description
xiv, 576 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PN1992.3.U5 B57 2016
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Television programs
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United States
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History
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Television producers and directors
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United States
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Interviews
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Summary note
"Television shows have now eclipsed films as the premier form of visual narrative art of our time. This new book by one of our finest critics explains--historically, in depth, and with interviews with the celebrated creators themselves--how the art of must-see/binge-watch television evolved. Darwin had his theory of evolution, and David Bianculli has his. Bianculli's theory has to do with the concept of quality television: what it is and, crucially, how it got that way. In tracing the evolutionary history of our progress toward a Platinum Age of Television--our age, the era of The Sopranos and Breaking Bad and Mad Men and The Wire and Homeland and Girls--he focuses on the development of the classic TV genres, among them the sitcom, the crime show, the miniseries, the soap opera, the western, the animated series and the late night talk show. In each genre, he selects five key examples of the form, tracing its continuities and its dramatic departures and drawing on exclusive and in-depth interviews with many of the most famed auteurs in television history. Television has triumphantly come of age artistically; David Bianculli's book is the first to date to examine, in depth and in detail and with a keen critical and historical sense, how this inspiring development came about"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 553-555) and index.
Contents
Children's Programs
Animation
Matt Groening
Variety/Sketch
Mel Brooks
Carol Burnett
Tom Smothers
Amy Schumer
Soap Operas
Crime
Steven Bochco
David Chase
Kevin Spacey
Vince Gilligan
Legal
David E. Kelley
Robert and Michelle King
Medical
Family Sitcoms
Norman Lear
Workplace Sitcoms
James L. Brooks
Garry Shandling
Splitcoms
Carl Reiner
Bob Newhart
Larry David
Louis C.K.
Single Working Women Sitcoms
Judd Apatow
Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
Westerns
David Milch
Spies
General Drama
David Simon
Aaron Sorkin
Matthew Weiner
War
Miniseries
Ken Burns
Topical Comedy
Larry Wilmore.
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From I love Lucy to The walking dead, how TV became terrific
ISBN
9780385540278 ((hardcover))
0385540272 ((hardcover))
LCCN
2016027803
OCLC
957223334
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