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Inside prime time

Title
Inside prime time / Todd Gitlin.
Author
Gitlin, Todd.
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000.

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Description
xiv, 369 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Television broadcasting > United States
  • Television programs > United States
  • Television programs > Rating > United States
Note
  • Originally published: Rev. ed. New York : Pantheon Books, 1994.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-358) and index.
Contents
Pt. I. Nothing Succeeds Like Success. 1. The Problem of Knowing. 2. Predicting the Unpredictable. 3. By the Numbers. 4. Making Schedules. 5. The Triumph of the Synthetic: Spinoffs, Copies, Recombinant Culture. 6. "Another American Dream Gone Astray" -- Pt. II. The Television-Industrial Complex. 7. Inside Tracks in a Small World. 8. The Deal Is the Art Form. 9. Movies of the Week -- Pt. III. The Politics of Prime Time. 10. The Turn Toward "Relevance" 11. Shifting Right: Yesterday's Vietnam, Today's FBI. 12. The "Far Righteous" Shake the Temple of Commerce. 13. The Temple Stands. 14. Hill Street Blues: "Make It Look Messy"
ISBN
0520217853 (alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 99035654
  • 9780520217850
OCLC
  • 41565216
  • ocm41565216
  • SCSB-4320649
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Columbia University Libraries