Television's Second Golden Age: From Hill Street Blues to ER Robert J. Thompson
This is an insider's tour, touching on the network's dizzying decision-making process, and the artists who have revolutionized the medium.
Television's Second Golden Age
Television's Second Golden Age
€13.50
État - Très bon état
Disponible en seulement 1 exemplaire(s)
Résumé
Offers an insider's tour, touching on the network's dizzying decision-making process, and the artists who have revolutionized the medium.
Television's Second Golden Age Résumé
Television's Second Golden Age Avis
A gracefully written grabber overflowing with affection and canny detail. Fans of 'quality TV drama series' will have a field day with Syracuse University professor Thompson's multidisciplinary examination of 'the return of the seri ous, literary, writer-based drama' over the past 15 years. Allotting full chapters to breakthrough series Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere, Thompson reviews a bit more briefly the histories of 1980s classics Cagney & Lacey, Moonlighting, L.A. Law, thirtysomething, and China Beach and their 'quirky' 1990s successors Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, and Picket Fences. 'The Future of Quality' chapter describes the networks' retreat from writer-based drama in the early 1990s and the return to it in series like NYPD Blue, Law & Order, Homicide: Life on the Street, Chicago Hope, and the number one hit, ER. This survey will appeal to several audiences: People readers will relish the gossip; Fortune readers will zero in on the economics of quality versus junk-food television; and readers monitoring media transmogrifications will find Thompson's analysis of TV's institutionalization of quality drama fascinating.
Sommaire
- Acknowledgments
- Preface: From The Golden Age of Television to Quality TV
- 1. The Golden Ages of Television
- 2. The Causes of Quality
- 3. The Quality Factory
- 4. Hill Street Blues: The Quality Revolution
- 5. Quality-The Next Generation: St. Elsewhere
- 6. The Second Golden Age of Television: Cagney & Lacey, Moonlighting, L.A. Law, thirtysomething, and China Beach
- 7. Quality Goes Quirky: Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, and Picket Fences
- 8. The Future of Quality
- Notes
- Select Book Bibliography
- Home Video Sources
- Index of Television Titles
- Index of Names
Informations supplémentaires
GOR005015047
9780815605041
0815605048
Television's Second Golden Age: From Hill Street Blues to ER Robert J. Thompson
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
Syracuse University Press
19971001
220
N/A
La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier.
Il s'agit d'un livre d'occasion - par conséquent, il a été lu par quelqu'un d'autre et il présente des signes d'usure et d'utilisation antérieure. Dans l'ensemble, nous nous attendons à ce qu'il soit en très bon état, mais si vous n'êtes pas entièrement satisfait, veuillez prendre contact avec nous.