The Platinum Age of Television : From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific

• Autore: Bianculli David
• Pubblicazione: Westminster : , : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (599 pages)
• Disciplina: 791.450973
• Soggetto topico: Television programs; Television producers and directors
• Classificazione: SOC022000PER010030PER010000
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- About the Author -- Other Titles -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Introduction -- 1 Children's Programs -- The Mickey Mouse Club -- Captain Kangaroo -- Mister Rogers' Neighborhood -- Sesame Street -- Pee-Wee's Playhouse -- 2 Animation -- Rocky and His Friends/The Bullwinkle Show -- The Flintstones -- A Charlie Brown Christmas -- The Simpsons -- South Park -- Profile Matt Groening -- 3 Variety/Sketch -- Toast of the Town/The Ed Sullivan Show -- Your Show of Shows -- The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour -- The Carol Burnett Show -- Saturday Night Live -- Profile Mel Brooks -- Profile Carol Burnett -- Profile Tom Smothers -- Profile Amy Schumer -- 4 Soap Operas -- Peyton Place -- Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman -- Dallas -- Desperate Housewives -- Empire -- 5 Crime -- Hill Street Blues -- NYPD Blue -- The Sopranos -- The Shield -- Breaking Bad -- Profile Steven Bochco -- Profile David Chase -- Profile Kevin Spacey -- Profile Vince Gilligan -- 6 Legal -- Perry Mason -- L.A. Law -- Boston Legal -- Damages -- The Good Wife -- Profile David E. Kelley -- Profile Robert and Michelle King -- 7 Medical -- Dr. Kildare -- St. Elsewhere -- ER -- House, M.D. -- Grey's Anatomy -- 8 Family Sitcoms -- I Love Lucy -- All in the Family -- The Cosby Show -- Roseanne -- Modern Family -- Profile Norman Lear -- 9 Workplace Sitcoms -- Fawlty Towers -- Taxi -- Cheers -- The Larry Sanders Show -- The Office -- Profile James L. Brooks -- Profile Garry Shandling -- 10 Splitcoms -- The Andy Griffith Show -- The Dick Van Dyke Show -- The Bob Newhart Show -- Seinfeld -- Louie -- Profile Carl Reiner -- Profile Bob Newhart -- Profile Larry David -- Profile Louis C.K. -- 11 Single Working Women Sitcoms -- The Mary Tyler Moore Show -- The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd -- Murphy Brown -- Sex and the City -- Girls -- Profile Judd Apatow. ; 12 Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror -- The Twilight Zone -- Star Trek -- The X-Files -- Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- The Walking Dead -- 13 Westerns -- Gunsmoke -- Maverick -- Rawhide -- Lonesome Dove -- Deadwood -- Profile David Milch -- 14 Spies -- The Avengers -- Mission: Impossible -- Alias -- Homeland -- The Americans -- 15 General Drama -- Twin Peaks -- The West Wing -- Six Feet Under -- The Wire -- Mad Men -- Profile David Simon -- Profile Aaron Sorkin -- Profile Matthew Weiner -- 16 War -- Combat! -- M*A*S*H -- China Beach -- Band of Brothers -- Generation Kill -- 17 Miniseries -- Roots -- The Singing Detective -- Lonesome Dove -- The Civil War -- Downton Abbey -- Profile Ken Burns -- 18 Topical Comedy -- That Was the Week That Was -- The Daily Show with Jon Stewart -- The Colbert Report -- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver -- The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore -- Profile Larry Wilmore -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: The Platinum Age of Television
• ISBN: 0-385-54028-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910149208403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II