Inside Prime Time

Autorentext
Todd Gitlin is Professor of Culture, Journalism, and Sociology at New York University. His books include Sacrifice (1999), The Twilight of Common Dreams (1995), The Sixties (1987), and The Whole World Is Watching (California, 1980).

Klappentext
This is an anatomy and analysis of the television entertainment industry: how it thinks, how it makes decisions, and why it is what it is.

Zusammenfassung
Reveals how prime-time shows get on the air, stay on the air, and are shaped by the political and cultural climate of their times. This book describes the elements of the television order, and argues that the proliferation of cable channels have not fundamentally changed the business mentality.

Inhalt
INTRODUCTION TO THE 2000 EDITION
PROLOGUE
PART 1 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"
PART II THE TELEVISION-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
7. Inside Tracks in a Small World
8. The Deal Is the Art Form
9. Movies of the Week
PART 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"
EPILOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES
INDEX
 

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