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Pandora's box : how guts, guile, and greed upended TV
- Title
- Pandora's box : how guts, guile, and greed upended TV / Peter Biskind.
- Author
- Biskind, Peter
- Publication
- New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023]
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 383 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Bestselling author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Down and Dirty Pictures, cultural critic Peter Biskind turns his eye toward the new golden age of television, sparked by the fall of play-it-safe network TV and the rise of boundary-busting cable followed by streaming, that overturned both--based on exclusive, candid, and colorful interviews with executives, writers, showrunners, directors, and actors"--
- Alternative Title
- How guts, guile, and greed upended TV
- How guts, guile, and greed upended television
- Subject
- Television programs > History
- Television > Production and direction > History
- Streaming technology (Telecommunications) > United States
- Television programs > United States > History
- Cable television > United States > History
- Cable television
- Streaming technology (Telecommunications)
- Television programs
- United States
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-367) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Broadcast blues -- Part I: "It's not television. It's HBO.". Seeding the wasteland -- "Be a good Catholic for 15 fucking minutes" -- HBO's annus horribilis -- Part II: Back to basics. FX flips off HBO -- AMC chases Chase -- Showtime's bad-good girls -- Out of luck and off-key, HBO gets game -- Part III: Stream or die. Netflix's Albanian army -- Amazon's women in the high castle -- Disney's empire strikes back -- Can WBD's kid stay in the picture? -- Part IV: Back to the future. Cash is king.
- Call Number
- JFE 23-3407
- ISBN
- 9780062991669
- 0062991663
- LCCN
- 2023030841
- OCLC
- 1391329402
- Author
- Biskind, Peter, author.
- Title
- Pandora's box : how guts, guile, and greed upended TV / Peter Biskind.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-367) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Biskind, Peter. Pandora's box First edition. New York : William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2023 9780062991683 (DLC) 2023030842
- Research Call Number
- JFE 23-3407