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The Platinum Age of Television
The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to The Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific | David Bianculli
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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 explainshistorically, in depth, and with interviews with the celebrated creators themselveshow 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 Televisionour age, the era of The Sopranos and Breaking Bad and Mad Men and The Wire and Homeland and Girlshe 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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bunneeboy
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Pickpick

Catnip for TV historians. Thoughtful, detailed and filled with background goodies.

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Marchpane
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When your TBR is huge but you also want to binge watch Stranger Things the day it comes out 🤷🏼‍♀️#torn

#knowyourenemy #rocktober

BarbaraBB 😂😂 7y
WhatDeeReads Netflix is constantly tearing me away from my TBR. #Shame 7y
mjdowens So glad I am not the only one☺️ 7y
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2BR02B I have the opposite issue. I've been ignoring my Netflix queue for ages because I'd always rather be reading! 😅 7y
Pamwurtzler My enemy is the phone. Not Litsy or Goodreads of course, but the rest of it . . . 7y
SomedayAlmost Or watch Outlander. 7y
Crystalblu Oh, we have friends coming over and might even take the next day off work! 7y
tjwill Yep. 7y
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MrBook
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#TBRtemptation post 7! Tv shows have eclipsed films as the premier visual narrative art form of our time. One of its premier critics explains, with many interviews of shows' creators, how shows have changed from the time of "I Love Lucy" to "Mad Men" and "Breaking Bad". He organizes it all by genre with 5 examples form each: sitcom, crime, soap opera, western, animated, miniseries, late-night talk, etc. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook ?

britt_brooke Cool cover! 7y
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shelf-improvement
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Next up: my last library book before the move. After books, TV rivals forests and food for my second great love. I sometimes wish I had found a way to become a TV critic because reading and writing about it is so much fun.

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