The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific By David Bianculli Hardcover 0385540272 9780385540278 The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific Television shows have now eclipsed films as the premier form of visual narrative art of our time. This new book by one of our finest critics explains historically, in depth, and with interviews with the celebrated creators themselves how the art of must see/binge watch television evolved. Darwin had his theory of evolution, and David Bianculli has his. Biancullis theory has to do with the concept of quality television: what it is and, crucially, how it got that way. In tracing the evolutionary history of our progress toward a Platinum Age of Television our age, the era of The Sopranos and Breaking Bad and Mad Men and The Wire and Homeland and Girls he focuses on the development of the classic TV genres, among them the sitcom, the crime show, the miniseries, the soap opera, the western, the animated series and the late night talk show. In each genre, he selects five key examples of the form, tracing its continuities and its dramatic departures and drawing on exclusive and in depth interviews with many of the most famed auteurs in television history.Television has triumphantly come of age artistically; David Biancullis book is the first to date to examine, in depth and in detail and with a keen critical and historical sense, how this inspiring development came about.

And that can be a compelling and fruitful journey with a guide like David Bianculli 0385540272 Workmanlike review of the major influential shows by genre over the seventy plus years of the history of television 0385540272 Really liked reading this I could definitely hear Bianculli s voice as I was reading since I ve heard him for years on NPR s Fresh Air Definitely appreciated reading about important TV broadcasts from the 50s and 60s The only trouble is the list of TV shows I must see is only getting longer 0385540272 This is a Goodreads First Reads review. This is a great overall view of how modern television came to be All shows and their creators are organized by category and there is a nice diversity of shows that the author covers.

Television shows have now eclipsed films as the premier form of visual narrative art of our time This new book by one of our finest critics explains historically in depth and with interviews with the celebrated creators themselves how the art of must see binge watch television evolved Darwin had his theory of evolution and David Bianculli has his Bianculli s theory has to do with the concept of quality television what it is and crucially how it got that way In tracing the evolutionary history of our progress toward a Platinum Age of Television our age the era of The Sopranos and Breaking Bad and Mad Men and The Wire and Homeland and Girls he focuses on the development of the classic TV genres among them the sitcom the crime show the miniseries the soap opera the western the animated series and the late night talk show In each genre he selects five key examples of the form tracing its continuities and its dramatic departures and drawing on exclusive and in depth interviews with many of the most famed auteurs in television history. Television has triumphantly come of age artistically David Bianculli s book is the first to date to examine in depth and in detail and with a keen critical and historical sense how this inspiring development came about The Platinum Age of Television From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead How TV Became TerrificRepeats itself a lot probably so each individual chapter can exist on its own or can be read out of order but when you do read the whole thing and why wouldn t you the frequent restatement of facts and credits gets a little exhausting particularly after 550 pages Still it s a very thorough and loving evolutionary survey of the history of TV as we currently know it 0385540272 The thesis of David Bianculli s television history The Platinum Age of Television is simple yet compelling While many see television as dramatically changing post Sopranos Bianculli makes the case that all of the great shows of what he has dubbed the platinum age are simply building upon the best television that has come before it I am a long time fan of Bianculli s as he was the in house TV critic for NPR s Fresh Air and his reviews always accompanied the show s broadcast on Balti and Philadelphia stations I lived in the country roughly between the two and listened to Bianculli s reviews throughout my childhood But I think even if you don t have the childhood fondness for the man you find his passion for and knowledge of television irrestitable Because Bianculli is also a professor and a historian his criticism doesn t have the national platform that is enjoyed by Matt Zoller Seitz Allen Sepinwall and some of the writers at Vulture Vox Vanity Fair and the various trades But for my money he is one of the best television critics in the form s history. Bianculli s knowledge and insight on the medium are constantly on display in this book which is a kind of culmination of his decades of criticism and analysis of television He takes the reader from the beginning of TV through to almost present day while tracing the evolution of the form in various genres and interviewing its major figures There are too many revelatory moments in the book to list in a short review but some of this sharpest historical work comes in defining the emergence of trends and tracking the evolution of television For example he identifies the splitcom a sitcom that takes place both at home and at work points out that sci fi grew out of the Western thanks to Gene Roddenbury s work on cowboy shows before going to space and precisely identifies the influence that shows like Louie and The Daily Show have had on the next generation of TV. I suspect that because Bianculli is a professor and because this is a fairly long book 24 hours of listening this text will largely be used in the classroom But I would offer that this is actually an essential text for any working professional in the field as well Understanding the difference between a legal drama and a crime drama understanding the way that female driven workplace comedies have had a separate evolutionary trajectory than male driven sitcoms parsing the differences between topical late night series and sketch comedy understanding the rise and fall and re birth of the mini series these are just some of the key television lessons Bianculli offers here There is a perception among millennials and Gen Z that television had nothing to offer before Tony Soprano strode out the door to grab his morning paper other than maybe Twin Peaks and The Simpsons Bianculli proves in this rigorous history that even figure as large as Tony always stand on the shoulders of giants To understand television as an art form you have to go back to its roots with both in depth reviews and smaller segments 0385540272 Platinum reads on occasion like a college textbook but that s probably because author Bianculli is an associate university professor However it s also fairly well researched which is likely due to his journalistic background he s worked at numerous newspapers since the mid 70 s in TV criticism. While not an exhaustive overview on the history of scripted American television shows he focuses on five series in each of the various genres medical legal crime sci fi sit com etc and how things have progressed and sometimes improved since the early 50 s into the early 21st century. Also notable were the various interviews usually series writer creators but there were actors and directors as well representing a wide array of small screen talent that concluded each chapter 0385540272 The Platinum Age of Television An Evolutionary History of Quality TV by David Bianculli is a free NetGalley ebook that I read in mid October. Epic in scope but with humble clear narration Bianculli groups TV shows together by genre where Peyton Place can mingle freely with Desperate Housewives at last then bookmarks these chapters with biographies of lead actors and TV hosts that are masters in their field It s a giant resource sized undertaking but Bianculli has done well to keep the topic fresh and relevant 0385540272 Qu buen recorrido por la historia de la televisi n o al menos por sus highlights y la poca m s que dorada En este libro David Bianculli nos lleva por esos hitos televisivos que hacen de la televisi n el medio influyente y especial que es hoy Desde las primeras series de suspenso drama y terror hasta las elaboradas historias de detectives m dicos y de fantas a que podemos ver hoy con todo realismo. The Platinum age of television es un libro que todo estudiante de cine y TV tiene que leer conocer las ra ces es fundamental pero tambi n recomiendo su lectura a los cr ticos de TV de hoy sean serios o no Como sabemos contar historias requiere de originalidad y no tener bagaje para criticarla es igual que asumir que todo producto nuevo es novedoso. Me encantaron los apartes dedicados a la ciencia ficci n los procedurals y los Late Late Shows me encanta haber visto toda su historia y evoluci n y el libro en s me hixo sentir curiosidad por un par de g neros que no me parecen la gran cosa western y Medical L anlo es algo largo pero es una buena oportunidad para conocer los origenes y referencias de muchos de nuestros shows favoritos de hoy 0385540272 Except for one really off putting digression into a defense of Bill Cosby and the use of the term alleged non consensual sexual misconduct I really liked this book. But that Cosby bit was really really weird 0385540272 Ksi ka dla ka dego mi o nika seriali Do wiadczony krytyk telewizyjny w tym fachu od 1975 roku poprzez pryzmat najwa niejszych program w i seriali telewizyjnych odkrywa przed czytelnikiem histori i ewolucj telewizji Jego celem nie jest jedynie przedstawienie najbardziej popularnych i lubianych seriali cho w r d opisywanych tutaj serii znajd si oczywi cie i takie ale wskazanie tych z nich kt re ze wzgl du na form tre spos b prezentacji opowie ci lub tematu s tu te serie dokumentalne zmienia y medium wyznacza y nowe trendy i kierunki prze amywa y tabu i ograniczenia oraz ustanawia y now jako telewizji. Ksi ka obejmuje ka d z kategorii program w telewizyjnych od kresk wek i telewizji dla najm odszych poprzez kilka kategorii komedii sytuacyjnej krymina y western horror i science fiction dramaty programy kabaretowe i rozrywkowe po opery mydlane seriale medyczne prawnicze i dokumentalne Ka dy rozdzia opisuje pi sze serii i program w kt re by y prawdziwymi kamieniami milowymi w historii telewizji a poszczeg lne sekcje przeplatane s biogramami opieraj cymi si na wywiadach z osobowo ciami telewizji kt re David Bianculli przeprowadza w trakcie swojej kariery recenzenckiej W r d nich Mel Brooks Judd Apatow Larry Wil David E Kelley David Chase Steven Bochco Vince Gilligan i wielu innych doskonale znanych wszystkim fanom seriali. Ksi ka cenna r wnie dlatego e pozwoli Wam jak to by o w moim przypadku odkry wybitne seriale i programy kt re nawet dzisiaj ogl da si znakomicie zachwycaj i nawet po latach zaskakuj pod wieloma wzgl dami To dzi ki tej ksi ce ju w trakcie jej lektury regularnie zacz em ogl da mi dzy innymi St Elsewhere 1982 1988 NYPD Blue 1993 2005 i Taxi 1978 1983 wietnie napisana ksi ka kt r doceni ka dy wielbiciel dobrej telewizji Polecam 0385540272

The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific By David Bianculli

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