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Encyclopedia of television miniseries, 1936-2020
- Title
- Encyclopedia of television miniseries, 1936-2020 / Vincent Terrace.
- Author
- Terrace, Vincent, 1948-
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2021]
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Details
- Description
- v, 248 pages; 26 cm
- Summary
- "In 1936, as television networks CBS, DuMont, and NBC experimented with new ways to provide entertainment, NBC deviated from the traditional method of single experimental programs to broadcast the first multi-part program, Love Nest, over a three-episode arc. This would come to be known as a miniseries. Although the term was not coined until 1954, several other such miniseries were broadcast, including Jack and the Beanstalk and Women in Wartime. In the mid-1960s the concept was developed into a genre that still exists. While the major broadcast networks pioneered the idea, it quickly became popular with cable and streaming services. This encyclopedic source contains a detailed history of 878 TV miniseries broadcast from 1936 to 2020, complete with casts, networks, credits, episode count and detailed plot information"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Encyclopedias.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Call Number
- MWGT 21-2234
- ISBN
- 9781476687353
- 1476687358
- LCCN
- 2021044075
- OCLC
- 1265456150
- Author
- Terrace, Vincent, 1948- author.
- Title
- Encyclopedia of television miniseries, 1936-2020 / Vincent Terrace.
- Publisher
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- MWGT 21-2234