The platinum age of television : from I love Lucy to The walking dead, how TV became terrific
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Published
New York : Doubleday, [2016].
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
0385540272, 9780385540278
Physical Desc
xiv, 576 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Status
Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
NF 791.4509 BIANCUL 2016
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NF 791.4509 BIANCUL 2016
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Published
New York : Doubleday, [2016].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
ISBN
0385540272, 9780385540278
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 553-555) and index.
Description
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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Bianculli, D. (2016). The platinum age of television: from I love Lucy to The walking dead, how TV became terrific (First edition.). Doubleday.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bianculli, David. 2016. The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to The Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific. Doubleday.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bianculli, David. The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to The Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific Doubleday, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Bianculli, David. The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to The Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific First edition., Doubleday, 2016.
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