Prime Time, Prime Movers: From I Love Lucy to L.A. Law-America's Greatest TV Shows and the People Who Created Them (The Television) Books
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.45750973
EAN: 9780815603115
ISBN: 0815603118
Label: Syracuse University Press
Manufacturer: Syracuse University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 340
Publication Date: 1995-04
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Studio: Syracuse University Press
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From dominant performers such as Jackie Gleason and Carol Burnett to powerhouse producers such as Norman Lear and Steven Bocho, "Prime Time, Prime Movers" reviews the stories and styles of the most important architects of the airwaves. Television is the most maligned of the modern media. Critics and even reviewers casually call it the "boob tube" or "idiot box". In the hands of certain individuals, however, it can become a creative canvas, a dramatic art that opens a distinctive window on our culture. There is a growing argument - an amateur theory - that despite all commercial constraints, the television producer is capable of using TV as a medium of personal expression. Covering a broad spectrum of TV programming formats, from old-time variety shows to sit-coms, from action/adventure shows to documentaries, from gameshows to soap operas, the authors challenge the tastes and interests of television viewers - a group roughly equivalent to the American population at large.
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This is an excellent second-hand source for media history about several big-name TV producers. I bought it to obtain an overview of Roy Huggins' career in television and this helpful text provided a lot of insight on Huggins as well as other big-name TV producers from the past. If you are into media history from the 1950s to the 1980s, then the chapters on Huggins as well as Glen A. Larson and Michael "Miami Vice" Mann should fascinate and inform you.
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It was like remembering my childhood all over again. If Robert Thompson could only explain the love for the Three Stooges
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