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Making Great Television

Author : Dee LaDuke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781517119232
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Making Great Television written by Dee LaDuke and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to sift out what is common to all successful narrative television and apply it to new development. Every year millions of dollars go into developing a fresh slate of programs for the new season and the majority of those dollars are lost to the studios and networks. Only a fraction of what is developed gets on the air. At the same time, the American appetite for good television is voracious and there has never been enough to satisfy hungry viewers and advertisers. Taking the simple steps outlined in this book may help clarify which projects are most likely to succeed and should be moved along in the process; written as pilot scripts, produced as pilots and ultimately given a series order.

Making Great Television

Author : Dee LaDuke
Publisher : Garth Gardner Company
ISBN 13 : 9781589650183
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Making Great Television written by Dee LaDuke and published by Garth Gardner Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The simple steps outlined in this book help clarify which television projects are most likely to be written as pilot scripts, produced, and ultimately given a series order. Presenting a new twist on the old notion of formulaic television, this book analyzes the four-component formula that the best television has given us and elaborates upon it for the creation of great comedy and drama in half-hour or miniseries format.

Make Room for TV

Author : Lynn Spigel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226769677
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Make Room for TV written by Lynn Spigel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1992-06 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1948 and 1955, nearly two-thirds of all American families bought a television set—and a revolution in social life and popular culture was launched. In this fascinating book, Lynn Spigel chronicles the enormous impact of television in the formative years of the new medium: how, over the course of a single decade, television became an intimate part of everyday life. What did Americans expect from it? What effects did the new daily ritual of watching television have on children? Was television welcomed as an unprecedented "window on the world," or as a "one-eyed monster" that would disrupt households and corrupt children? Drawing on an ambitious array of unconventional sources, from sitcom scripts to articles and advertisements in women's magazines, Spigel offers the fullest available account of the popular response to television in the postwar years. She chronicles the role of television as a focus for evolving debates on issues ranging from the ideal of the perfect family and changes in women's role within the household to new uses of domestic space. The arrival of television did more than turn the living room into a private theater: it offered a national stage on which to play out and resolve conflicts about the way Americans should live. Spigel chronicles this lively and contentious debate as it took place in the popular media. Of particular interest is her treatment of the way in which the phenomenon of television itself was constantly deliberated—from how programs should be watched to where the set was placed to whether Mom, Dad, or kids should control the dial. Make Room for TV combines a powerful analysis of the growth of electronic culture with a nuanced social history of family life in postwar America, offering a provocative glimpse of the way television became the mirror of so many of America's hopes and fears and dreams.

The Business of Television

Author : Ken Basin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351254162
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book The Business of Television written by Ken Basin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, esteemed television executive and Harvard lecturer Ken Basin offers a comprehensive overview of the business, financial, and legal structure of the U.S. television industry, as well as its dealmaking norms. Written for working or aspiring creative professionals who want to better understand the entertainment industry — as well as for executives, agents, managers, and lawyers looking for a reference guide — The Business of Television presents a readable, in-depth introduction to rights and talent negotiations, intellectual property, backend deals, licensing, streaming platforms, international production, and much more. The book also includes breakdowns after each chapter summarizing deal points and points of negotiation, a glossary, a list of referenced cases, and a wealth of real-world examples to help readers put the material into context.

Take a Look, It's in a Book

Author : Ronnie Krauss
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802784887
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Take a Look, It's in a Book written by Ronnie Krauss and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-03-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the television program "Reading Rainbow" and how it is made, from the selection of books featured to the addition of sound effects and music after shooting has been completed.

Making Crime Television

Author : Anita Lam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134114451
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Making Crime Television written by Anita Lam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book employs actor-network theory in order to examine how representations of crime are produced for contemporary prime-time television dramas. As a unique examination of the production of contemporary crime television dramas, particularly their writing process, Making Crime Television: Producing Entertaining Representations of Crime for Television Broadcast examines not only the semiotic relations between ideas about crime, but the material conditions under which those meanings are formulated. Using ethnographic and interview data, Anita Lam considers how textual representations of crime are assembled by various people (including writers, directors, technical consultants, and network executives), technologies (screenwriting software and whiteboards), and texts (newspaper articles and rival crime dramas). The emerging analysis does not project but instead concretely examines what and how television writers and producers know about crime, law and policing. An adequate understanding of the representation of crime, it is maintained, cannot be limited to a content analysis that treats the representation as a final product. Rather, a television representation of crime must be seen as the result of a particular assemblage of logics, people, creative ideas, commercial interests, legal requirements, and broadcasting networks. A fascinating investigation into the relationship between television production, crime, and the law, this book is an accessible and well-researched resource for students and scholars of Law, Media, and Criminology.

The Future of Television

Author : Pamela Douglas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781615932146
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Future of Television written by Pamela Douglas and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book's journey into the future of television begins with “You Are Here,” delving into “The Great Convergence” of television and Internet and the vortex of change we all inhabit now. Then, glancing back, we explore “The Old World” of broadcast television to understand how we got to this moment of transition. Next, traveling “Between Worlds,” we visit cable television and see how the boundaries between network, cable, and Internet are mutating. After that, we enter “The New World” that ranges from empires like Netflix and Amazon down to Kickstarter-funded web series, and all the creative expressions that abound. Finally, we look ahead to the “Far Frontier” of interactivity and transmedia and a distant, fantastic future. All these experiences are focused on how a writer, producer, director, or entrepreneur can use the emerging possibilities to create original television now and in the coming decade.

The TV Showrunner's Roadmap

Author : Neil Landau
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000545679
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The TV Showrunner's Roadmap written by Neil Landau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This all-new edition of the best-selling guide The TV Showrunner’s Roadmap provides readers with the tools for creating, writing, and managing your own hit streaming series. Combining his 30+ years as a working screenwriter and professor, industry veteran Neil Landau expertly unpacks essential insights to the creation of a successful show and takes readers behind the scenes with exclusive and enlightening interviews with showrunners from some of TV’s most lauded series, including Fargo, Better Call Saul, Watchmen, Insecure, Barry, Money Heist, Succession, Ozark, Schitt’s Creek, Euphoria, PEN15, and many more. From conception to final rewrite, The TV Showrunner’s Roadmap is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to create a series that won’t run out of steam after the first few episodes. This groundbreaking guide features an eResource with additional interviews and bonus materials. So grab your laptop, dig out that stalled spec script, and buckle up. Welcome to the fast lane.

Television and the Making of Richard Nixon

Author : William T. Horner
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476646635
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Television and the Making of Richard Nixon written by William T. Horner and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-07-13 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Richard Nixon's accomplishments and shortcomings are well-documented, one often ignored aspect of his career is his influence on the media conduct of politicians. Nixon pioneered the use of visual media in politics, beginning in the 1940s during his Congressional service. His historic "Checkers" speech was the first of its kind: a politician using television to save his political career. His appearances on entertainment television, which are now a normal feature of most national political campaigns, broke new ground as well. This book details the blueprint Nixon set for using television to achieve political goals. Presidents have often used innovative media as strategic methods of communication and public relations. The author argues that Nixon pioneered television media, using it consistently to connect with the American public.

On Television (Large Print 16pt)

Author : Pierre Bourdieu
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459604172
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book On Television (Large Print 16pt) written by Pierre Bourdieu and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-11-12 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Television exposes the invisible mechanisms of manipulation and censorship that determine what appears on the small screen. Bourdieu shows how the ratings game has transformed journalism - and hence politics - and even such seemingly removed fields as law' science' art' and philosophy. Bourdieu had long been concerned with the role of television in cultural and political life when he bypassed the political and commercial control of the television networks and addressed his country's viewers from the television station of the College de France. On Television' which expands on that lecture' not only describes the limiting and distorting effect of television on journalism and the world of ideas' but offers the blueprint for a counterattack.

Glued to the Set

Author : Steven D. Stark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780385324113
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book Glued to the Set written by Steven D. Stark and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Call it literate fun. Ranging from the 1940's to the 1990's and focusing on 60 programs that will surprise you, Stark comments on TV history in a smart, pithy voice and reveals how as a nation we've moved from Lucy and Ricky to Roseanne and Dan; from Howdy Doody to Sesame Street -- and what that says about us.You may think you know television -- but when Steven Stark is finished pushing your buttons with fighting words and brilliant insights, you'll see what television has done to us as a nation in a whole new way. From Beaver to Roseanne, Ed Sullivan to Oprah, Monday Night Football to MTV, Stark takes us on a guided tour of the tube, providing startling revelations about the power of its sixty most important shows and events in the history of television. He catches in bright focus a hilarious, strange, and compelling image of ourselves as reflected on the small screen, and he shows us, with striking logic, the awesome power of television over our future and our fate.

Television Sports Production

Author : Jim Owens
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1317671090
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Television Sports Production written by Jim Owens and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike a studio production, many factors can adversely affect your television sports shoot including weather, lighting, and natural sound. A successful shoot is dependent on extensive planning, careful budgetting, technology, location, and a thorough understanding of the intricacies of the sport itself. With so much at stake, why not learn from an expert? In Television Sports Production, Fifth Edition Jim Owens walks you through the planning, set-up, directing, announcing, shooting, and editing involved with covering a sports event. This manual gives you the tools to effectively cover sports ranging such as football, soccer, and basketball. Tips and advice on using mobile units, cameras, audio equipment, and lighting rigs will enable you to produce live or recorded coverage like an expert and capture professional-quality footage on the first take. After all, there are no instant replays! This new edition has been updated to include: Techniques used by producers to capture the essence of individual Tips on shooting in 3D, 5D, 4k and 8K Coverage using surround sound and the second screen Extras such as camera and microphone diagrams and an easy-reference glossary

The Art and Making of Hannibal

Author : Jesse McLean
Publisher : Titan Books (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781783295753
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book The Art and Making of Hannibal written by Jesse McLean and published by Titan Books (UK). This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring season 1&2 script extracts, exclusive cast and crew interviews, behind-the-scenes photography, and production notes, this volume includes detailed sketches of the murder scenes and sets as well as food stylist designs of Hannibal's most infamous dinner parties.

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

Author : Charles M. Schulz
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006089721X
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown written by Charles M. Schulz and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-09-12 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trick-or-treating has never been more fun—with scary costumes, Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Sally, Schroeder, Linus, and, of course, the Great Pumpkin. Since its first airing forty years ago, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" has become synonymous with Halloween. This collection of remembrances and behind-the-scenes treasures celebrates the timeless television classic with: A full script illustrated with screen art from the show Never-before-seen photographs, storyboard excerpts, and production materials Interviews with the original child actors who were the voices of the Peanuts gang Reminiscences and insider tidbits from executive producer Lee Mendelson and animator Bill Melendez And much more!

TV (The Book)

Author : Alan Sepinwall
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1455588202
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book TV (The Book) written by Alan Sepinwall and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is The Wire better than Breaking Bad? Is Cheers better than Seinfeld? What's the best high school show ever made? Why did Moonlighting really fall apart? Was the Arrested Development Netflix season brilliant or terrible? For twenty years-since they shared a TV column at Tony Soprano's hometown newspaper-critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz have been debating these questions and many more, but it all ultimately boils down to this: What's the greatest TV show ever? That debate reaches an epic conclusion in TV (THE BOOK). Sepinwall and Seitz have identified and ranked the 100 greatest scripted shows in American TV history. Using a complex, obsessively all-encompassing scoring system, they've created a Pantheon of top TV shows, each accompanied by essays delving into what made these shows great. From vintage classics like The Twilight Zone and I Love Lucy to modern masterpieces like Mad Men and Friday Night Lights, from huge hits like All in the Family and ER to short-lived favorites like Firefly and Freaks and Geeks, TV (THE BOOK) will bring the triumphs of the small screen together in one amazing compendium. Sepinwall and Seitz's argument has ended. Now it's time for yours to begin!

The Platinum Age of Television

Author : David Bianculli
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1101911328
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Platinum Age of Television written by David Bianculli and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Television today is better than ever. From The Sopranos to Breaking Bad, Sex and the City to Girls, and Modern Family to Louie, never has so much quality programming dominated our screens. Exploring how we got here, acclaimed TV critic David Bianculli traces the evolution of the classic TV genres, among them the sitcom, the crime show, the miniseries, the soap opera, the Western, the animated series, the medical drama, and the variety show. In each genre he selects five key examples of the form to illustrate its continuities and its dramatic departures. Drawing on exclusive and in-depth interviews with many of the most famed auteurs in television history, Bianculli shows how the medium has evolved into the premier form of visual narrative art. Includes interviews with: MEL BROOKS, MATT GROENING, DAVID CHASE, KEVIN SPACEY, AMY SCHUMER, VINCE GILLIGAN, AARON SORKIN, MATTHEW WEINER, JUDD APATOW, LOUIS C.K., DAVID MILCH, DAVID E. KELLEY, JAMES L. BROOKS, LARRY DAVID, KEN BURNS, LARRY WILMORE, AND MANY, MANY MORE

How To Write For Television

Author : Madeline Dimaggio
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416570454
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book How To Write For Television written by Madeline Dimaggio and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-12-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TV Writing the Right Way! In this guide for every student of the small screen and every scriptwriter dreaming of breaking into the business, writer-producer Madeline DiMaggio hands you the tools of the trade. With dozens of examples from today's hit shows, as well as perennial classics, DiMaggio walks readers through the scriptwriting process, from learning how to watch TV like a writer to developing your script, pitching it, and eventually sealing the deal. DiMaggio answers the questions on every aspiring television writer's mind, with chapters on: The tools of scriptwriting Hooks that sell Creating the pilot Developing the episode, step by step How to create riveting characters Writing long form and cable movies Adaptations and collaborations Marketing your script DiMaggio combines her own experience with advice to writers from others in the trade, including agents, producers, animators, and more. This readable, reliable book has been a trusted reference for nearly two decades and is now revised to include the most up-to-date information from today's television climate, from writing for cable, reality, and TV-movie formats to the ever-evolving face of the sitcom. A must-read for anyone aiming to write for TV, How to Write for Television will continue to help budding writers reach their small-screen goals and will prepare them for working in the rapidly changing world of TV.