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Play all : a bingewatcher's notebook / Clive James.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2016.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 200 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300224573
  • 0300224575
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Play all.DDC classification:
  • 791.456 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1992.8.S4
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on the Text; Title Sequence; The Ducks Have Left the Pond; Actors Airborne; Sorkin on the Racing Line; Sweet Faces Speak Poetry; City of the Dead; Breaking Understandably Bad; The Way We Weren't; Displays of Secrecy; Game of Depths; Ariadne's Labyrinth.
Summary: A world-renowned media and cultural critic offers an insightful analysis of serial TV drama and the modern art of the small screen Television and TV viewing are not what they once were-and that's a good thing, according to award-winning author and critic Clive James. Since serving as television columnist for the London Observer from 1972 to 1982, James has witnessed a radical change in content, format, and programming, and in the very manner in which TV is watched. Here he examines this unique cultural revolution, providing a brilliant, eminently entertaining analysis of many of the medium's most notable twenty-first-century accomplishments and their not always subtle impact on modern society-including such acclaimed serial dramas as Breaking Bad, The West Wing, Mad Men, and The Sopranos, as well as the comedy 30 Rock. With intelligence and wit, James explores a television landscape expanded by cable and broadband and profoundly altered by the advent of Netflix, Amazon, and other "cord-cutting" platforms that have helped to usher in a golden age of unabashed binge-watching.
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Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on the Text; Title Sequence; The Ducks Have Left the Pond; Actors Airborne; Sorkin on the Racing Line; Sweet Faces Speak Poetry; City of the Dead; Breaking Understandably Bad; The Way We Weren't; Displays of Secrecy; Game of Depths; Ariadne's Labyrinth.

A world-renowned media and cultural critic offers an insightful analysis of serial TV drama and the modern art of the small screen Television and TV viewing are not what they once were-and that's a good thing, according to award-winning author and critic Clive James. Since serving as television columnist for the London Observer from 1972 to 1982, James has witnessed a radical change in content, format, and programming, and in the very manner in which TV is watched. Here he examines this unique cultural revolution, providing a brilliant, eminently entertaining analysis of many of the medium's most notable twenty-first-century accomplishments and their not always subtle impact on modern society-including such acclaimed serial dramas as Breaking Bad, The West Wing, Mad Men, and The Sopranos, as well as the comedy 30 Rock. With intelligence and wit, James explores a television landscape expanded by cable and broadband and profoundly altered by the advent of Netflix, Amazon, and other "cord-cutting" platforms that have helped to usher in a golden age of unabashed binge-watching.

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