Elsa Regan từ Gandomineh, Lorestan, Iran

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05/17/2024

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2019-12-18 14:31

Neurology Secrets, 6e Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Joseph S. Kass

I just finished Billion-Dollar Kiss: The Kiss That Saved DAWSON'S CREEK and Other Adventures in TV Writing by Jeffrey Stepakoff and was intrigued by his account of how television writing--and quality--waxed and waned through several decades, and how it transformed incredibly during his own heyday on the late-90s/early 00s. Since I read this directly after Hollywood Car Wash, it sort of came off to me as a more realistic and comprehensive perspective on the TV writing/producing industry. Sure, they are different books -- one is non-fiction and written by an MFA in Playwriting-trained person; the other comes off as more of a shallow-though-entertaining-on-that-level chick-lit lark -- but they both have protagonists that started with a certain set of "artistic, non-Establishment values" and got swallowed up by the money and big business and youth-obsession of Hollywood industry. And since Stepokoff makes it very clear he is talking about Hollywood LA, and not necessarily all of LA, he got a pass for me on the generalizations head. In fact, his specifics are what enthralled me, and his recounting of his journey through the shifting vagaries and priorities of the Industry. From the 1960s, when networks were deflected from creating their own cookie-cutter shows, to the rise of quality programming from writer-centered independent production companies like MTM that thrived into the late 80s, and then the impact of writers' strikes, the consolidation of media after the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (which also diluted music and radio and hip-hop, as well as TV programming), and the transformation of networks into youth-obsessed "branding" sites, where the networks wanting to make a buck--not the writers wanting to create diverse stories--became the first and last say on everything, that long and winding road was fascinating, somewhat disheartening, and certainly illuminating.

Người đọc Elsa Regan từ Gandomineh, Lorestan, Iran

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.