The platinum age of television : from I love Lucy to The walking dead, how TV became terrific

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The platinum age of television : from I love Lucy to The walking dead, how TV became terrific

Title remainder

from I love Lucy to The walking dead, how TV became terrific

Statement of responsibility

David Bianculli

Creator

• Bianculli, David

Author

• Bianculli, David

Subject

• PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism
• Television producers and directors -- United States -- Interviews
• Interviews
• Television programs -- United States -- History
• PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General

Genre

• Interviews

Language

eng

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"--

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

791.450973

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PN1992.3.U5

LC item number

B57 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography