It's Not TV: Watching HBO in the Post-Television Era
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (514 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 041596038X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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"It's Not TV" is Good Reading Leverette et al make interesting arguments about HBO production and some of the series. The authors' investigation of HBO production processes is well-researched and useful for analysis of original programming and television in general. There are a limited number of series addressed, and I would have liked a more comprehensive approach to series explication, but this is a fun read for anyone who watches HBO regularly.. Great scholarly texts about HBO This is a book that tries to have an academic perspective on TV and TV shows. It's a way of saying, that TV isn't always just trash. It focuses on HBO, because more than any other television channel HBO tries to create original, interesting, great quality TV. However, the book also discusses how, and whether or not, HBO succeeds in this project.Great for Television buffs, who thinks that TV can also be studied in an academic and scholarly fashion.
He is author of The Small Screen: How Television Equips Us to Live in the Information Age.Cara Louise Buckley is Lecturer at Emerson College.. He is author of Professional Wrestling, the Myth, the Mat, and American Popular Culture and co-editor of Zombie Culture: Autopsies of the Living Dead and Oh My God, They Deconstructed South Park! Tho
"The ultimate question of this varied collection is not whether HBO is TV, but whether television today is the same as it once was: has TV not changed to take account of new forms of leisure, new social and sexual mores, new modes of electronic entertainment and so on? With verve, the authors approach the HBO phenomenon from multiple perspectives to make clear its important role in a new, complex media landscape."--Dana Polan, Professor of Cinema Studies, NYU, and author of The Sopranos"If HBO represents the apogee of post-network programming, the essays collected here represent the new wave in television studies. Cutting through HBO's self-promotional hype, the authors closely examine industrial and economic issues, while also discussing specific programs and audience responses. This extremely informative book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the key issues in today's TV industry."--Heather Hendershot, author of Shaking the World for Jesus and editor of Nickelodeon Nation"The editors have carefully assembled an in-depth investigation unlike any before, and are to be saluted for the breadth and depth of this important work. HBO has redefined modern television, and this book, has in its own way, helped to redefine the way we look at HBO."--Brian Cogan, Molloy College
Ott is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Colorado State University. Ethridge, Tony Kelso, Marc Leverette, David Marc, Janet McCabe, Conor McGrath, Shawn McIntosh, Brian L. Since first going on the air in 1972, HBO has continually attempted to redefine television as we know it. Today, pay television (and HBO in particular) is positioned as an alternative to network offerings, consistently regarded as the premier site for what has come to be called "quality television." This collection of new essays by an international group of media scholars argues that HBO, as part of the leading edge of television, is at the center of television studies’