The platinum age of television : from I love Lucy to The walking dead, how TV became terrific / David Bianculli.
Bianculli, David, author.
2016
PN1992.3.U5 B57 2016 (Mapit)
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Title The platinum age of television : from I love Lucy to The walking dead, how TV became terrific / David Bianculli.
Author Bianculli, David, author.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9780385540278 (hardcover)
0385540272 (hardcover)
Published New York : Doubleday, [2016]
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Description xiv, 576 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number PN1992.3.U5 B57 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.450973
Summary "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.
Quality television: what is it, and, crucially, how did it get that way? Bianculli 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 553-555) and index.
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Introduction
Children's programs
Animation
Profile : Matt Groening
Variety/sketch
Profile : Mel Brooks
Profile : Carol Burnett
Profile : Tom Smothers
Profile : Amy Schumer
Soap operas
Crime
Profile : Steven Bochco
Profile : David Chase
Profile : Kevin Spacey
Profile : Vince Gilligan
Legal
Profile : David E. Kelley
Profile : Robert and Michelle King
Medical
Family sitcoms
Profile : Norman Lear
Workplace sitcoms
Profile : James L. Brooks
Profile : Garry Shandling
Splitcoms
Profile : Carl Reiner
Profile : Bob Newhart
Profile : Larry David
Profile : Louis C.K.
Single working women sitcoms
Profile : Judd Apatow
Sci-fi/fantasy/horror
Westerns
Profile : David Milch
Spies
General drama
Profile : David Simon
Profile : Aaron Sorkin
Profile : Matthew Weiner
War
Miniseries
Profile : Ken Burns
Topical comedy
Profile : Larry Wilmore
Conclusion.

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