01374nam a2200205Ia 4500 CTU_221844 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 384.55 G536 Gitlin, Todd Inside prime time Todd Gitlin New York Pantheon Books 1983 Unsurpassed since its first publication, Inside Prime Time is the only book to take us behind the scenes to reveal how prime-time shows get on the air, stay on the air, and are shaped by the political and cultural climate of their times. Using more than 200 interviews with network executives, producers, writers, agents, and actors, as well as months of on-set investigation during the networks' more prosperous years, sociologist and critic Todd Gitlin takes us into a frantic world searching for hit shows. The result is both a lucid picture of the mechanics of prime time and a series of vivid stories of what succeeded or failed, and why. His analysis includes a blow-by-blow account of how the exceptional police series Hill Street Blues succeeded against all odds before eventually succumbing to formula itself. Ngành công nghiệp truyền hình,Television industry Hoa Kỳ,United States Trúc Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ