The Platinum Age Of Television

Author : David Bianculli
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780385540285

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Television today is better than ever. From The Sopranos to Breaking Bad, Sex and the City to Girls, and Modern Family to Louie, never has so much quality programming dominated our screens. Exploring how we got here, acclaimed TV critic David Bianculli traces the evolution of the classic TV genres, among them the sitcom, the crime show, the miniseries, the soap opera, the Western, the animated series, the medical drama, and the variety show. In each genre he selects five key examples of the form to illustrate its continuities and its dramatic departures. Drawing on exclusive and in-depth interviews with many of the most famed auteurs in television history, Bianculli shows how the medium has evolved into the premier form of visual narrative art. Includes interviews with: MEL BROOKS, MATT GROENING, DAVID CHASE, KEVIN SPACEY, AMY SCHUMER, VINCE GILLIGAN, AARON SORKIN, MATTHEW WEINER, JUDD APATOW, LOUIS C.K., DAVID MILCH, DAVID E. KELLEY, JAMES L. BROOKS, LARRY DAVID, KEN BURNS, LARRY WILMORE, AND MANY, MANY MORE

Author : David Bianculli
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101911327

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The Platinum Age of Television by David Bianculli Pdf

Television today is better than ever. From The Sopranos to Breaking Bad, Sex and the City to Girls, and Modern Family to Louie, never has so much quality programming dominated our screens. Exploring how we got here, acclaimed TV critic David Bianculli traces the evolution of the classic TV genres, among them the sitcom, the crime show, the miniseries, the soap opera, the Western, the animated series, the medical drama, and the variety show. In each genre he selects five key examples of the form to illustrate its continuities and its dramatic departures. Drawing on exclusive and in-depth interviews with many of the most famed auteurs in television history, Bianculli shows how the medium has evolved into the premier form of visual narrative art. Includes interviews with: MEL BROOKS, MATT GROENING, DAVID CHASE, KEVIN SPACEY, AMY SCHUMER, VINCE GILLIGAN, AARON SORKIN, MATTHEW WEINER, JUDD APATOW, LOUIS C.K., DAVID MILCH, DAVID E. KELLEY, JAMES L. BROOKS, LARRY DAVID, KEN BURNS, LARRY WILMORE, AND MANY, MANY MORE

Author : Michele Hilmes,Jason Jacobs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781839024672

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The Television History Book by Michele Hilmes,Jason Jacobs Pdf

Traces the history of broadcasting and the infludence developments in broadcasting have had over our social, cultural and economic practices. Examining the broadcasting traditions of the UK and USA, 'The Television History Book' make connections between events and tendencies that both unite and differentiate these national broadcasting traditions.

Author : Martin Esslin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351486224

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The Age of Television by Martin Esslin Pdf

Having spent most of his career working with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Martin Esslin appraises American TV with the eyes of both a detached outsider and a concerned insider. "American popular culture," writes Esslin, "has become the popular culture of the world at large. American television is thus more than a purely social phenomenon. It fascinates and in some instances frightens the whole world." The Age of Television discusses television as an essentially dramatic form of communication, pointing to the strengths and weaknesses that spring from its character. It explores its impact on generations destined to grow up under its influence, with such questions as how TV turns reality into fiction, and fiction into reality. Esslin considers the long-term effects of television on our abilities to reason, to read, to create. He asks if current programming on American television constitutes what we want and deserve, and asks what we would change, if we could. These are but a handful of the questions Esslin probes in this penetrating analysis of contemporary television and its impact on our lives. In his new introduction, Esslin discusses changes in the media over the last two decades. He explores the increasing number of television stations available, the rise of "boutique" channels concentrating on news, sports, or film, and the relationship between television and other forms of electronic media such as video games and the Internet. Finally, he considers the effect of these developments on our ability to concentrate, our sensitivity to violence, and even our artistic taste. Most compelling of all is his final question: Can the Age of Television, with all its dangers, yet become a golden age of cultural growth? Martin Esslin is professor emeritus of drama at Stanford University. His numerous critical works include: Brecht-The Man and his Work, The Theatre of the Absurd, An Anatomy of Drama, and Artaud. He cur

Author : Robert J. Thompson
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0815605048

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Television's Second Golden Age by Robert J. Thompson Pdf

This is an insider's tour, touching on the network's dizzying decision-making process, and the artists who have revolutionized the medium.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:505235381

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Golden Age of Television by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Marschall,Rick Marschall
Publisher : Smithmark Publishers
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0831739266

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The Golden Age of Television by Richard Marschall,Rick Marschall Pdf

Chronicles the birth and demise of genres, stars and starlets, and America's response to early television.

Author : Harvey Sheldon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 795 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Television
ISBN : 0986040819

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The History of the Golden Age of Television by Harvey Sheldon Pdf

Author : Gary Richard Edgerton
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231121651

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The Columbia History of American Television by Gary Richard Edgerton Pdf

Richly researched and engaging, The Columbia History of American Television tracks the growth of TV into a convergent technology, a global industry, a social catalyst, a viable art form, and a complex and dynamic reflection of the American mind and character. Renowned media historian Gary R. Edgerton follows the technological progress and increasing cultural relevance of television from its prehistory (before 1947) to the Network Era (1948-1975) and the Cable Era (1976-1994). He considers the remodeling of television's look and purpose during World War II; the gender, racial, and ethnic components of its early broadcasts and audiences; its transformation of postwar America; and its function in the political life of the country. In conclusion, Edgerton takes a discerning look at our current Digital Era and the new forms of instantaneous communication that continue to change America's social, political, and economic landscape.

Author : Jeremy G. Butler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136925825

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Television by Jeremy G. Butler Pdf

For nearly two decades, Television: Critical Methods and Applications has served as the foremost guide to television studies. Designed for the television studies course in communication and media studies curricula, Television explains in depth how television programs and commercials are made and how they function as producers of meaning. Author Jeremy G. Butler shows the ways in which camera style, lighting, set design, editing, and sound combine to produce meanings that viewers take away from their television experience. He supplies students with a whole toolbox of implements to disassemble television and read between the lines, teaching them to incorporate critical thinking into their own television viewing. The fourth edition builds upon the pedagogy of previous editions to best accommodate current modes of understanding and teaching television. Highlights of the fourth edition include: New chapter and part organization to reflect the current approach to teaching television—with greatly expanded methods and theories chapters. An entirely new chapter on modes of production and their impact on what you see on the screen. Discussions integrated throughout on the latest developments in television’s on-going convergence with other media, such as material on transmedia storytelling and YouTube’s impact on video distribution. Over three hundred printed illustrations, including new and better quality frame grabs of recent television shows and commercials. A companion website featuring color frame grabs, a glossary, flash cards, and editing and sound exercises for students, as well as PowerPoint presentations, sample syllabi and other materials for instructors. Links to online videos that support examples in the text are also provided. With its distinctive approach to examining television, Television is appropriate for courses in television studies, media criticism, and general critical studies.

Author : Jason Mittell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215297826

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Television and American Culture by Jason Mittell Pdf

Television and American Culture: An Overview introduces students to the study of television by looking at American television from a cultural perspective. The book is written for intermediate undergraduate and beginning graduate students for a range of television studies courses. Specifically, Mittell discusses television within the following contexts: the economics of the television industry, television's role within American democracy, the formal attributes of a variety of television genres, television as a site of gender and racial identity formation, television's role in everyday life, and the medium's technological and social impacts. The topical arrangement and comprehensive scope of the book differs from other television textbooks, arguing that we must incorporate a range of economic, political, aesthetic, and sociological perspectives to fully comprehend the medium of television.

Author : Robert J. Thompson
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Television programs
ISBN : UCSC:32106017673663

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Television's Second Golden Age by Robert J. Thompson Pdf

"Informative and insightful, this book takes the convincing stance that TV's good old days are really today". -- Publishers Weekly

Author : Rick Marschall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Television
ISBN : 0600552667

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The Golden Age of Television by Rick Marschall Pdf

Author : Harry Castleman,Walter J. Podrazik
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0815632207

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Watching TV by Harry Castleman,Walter J. Podrazik Pdf

Castleman and Podrazik present a sweeping season-by-season survey, capturing the essence of television from its inception to the present. The authors have dug through mounds of obscure facts, offbeat anecdotes, and the complicated network strategies that have made television a multibillion-dollar industry. By presenting every prime-time schedule, season by season, from the fall of 1944, Watching TV provides a fascinating history of how the personalities, popular shows, and coverage of key events have evolved during the past six decades. Full of facts, firsts, insights, and exploits, as well as rare and memorable photographs, Watching TV is the standard history of American television. This expanded edition includes thorough coverage up to the 2009–10 television season.

Author : Harry Castleman,Walter J. Podrazik
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0815634382

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Watching TV by Harry Castleman,Walter J. Podrazik Pdf

Castleman and Podrazik present a sweeping season-by-season story, capturing the essence of television from its inception to the contemporary era of anytime access and online streaming, including every prime time fall schedule since 1944. The authors have dug through the mounds of obscure facts, offbeat anecdotes, and corporate strategies that have made television a multibillion-dollar industry. Watching TV provides a fascinating history of how the personalities, popular shows, and coverage of key events have evolved across eight decades. Full of facts, firsts, insights, and exploits, as well as rare and memorable photographs, Watching TV is the standard history of American television. This third edition includes coverage up through the mid-2010s and looks ahead to the next waves of change.