This is a guide to the most important creators of big-time TV over the past 45 years. For dominant performers like Jackie Gleason and Carol Burnett to powerhouse producers like Norman Lear and Stephen Bocho, the book reviews the style, story and impact makers of prime-time TV and their influence on the largest industry of all the mass media. Covering the old-time variety shows and sit-coms, the book's cast of characters includes Milton Berle, Jack Webb and Red Skelton.
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Known principally for his writing on television, film, and popular culture, David Marc is currently at work on his seventh book. It concerns "The Syracuse Eight," a group of African American student athletes on the Syracuse University football team who, in 1970, protested racial bias at a school known for fostering such breakthrough stars as Jim Brown, Ernie Davis, and Floyd Little. Demographic Vistas: Television in American Culture, his first book, was published in 1984 and a second edition, containing added material, was brought out in 1998. Our Movie Houses, a collaboration with Norman O. Keim, was named "book of the year" for 2008 by the Theatre Historical Society of America. Reviews of David's books have appeared in The New York Times, The Times of London, on National Public Radio, and elsewhere. His feature articles, essays and reviews have been published in The Atlantic Monthly, The Village Voice, Television Quarterly and a long list of periodicals ranging from academic journals to airline magazines. He has contributed chapters to more than a dozen critical anthologies, including, most recently, Reading Mad Men (ed. Gary Edgerton). He has written more than 100 articles and biographical portraits for reference works, including Oxford's American National Biography (www.anb.org), Scribner's American Lives, Grolier's, and Microsoft Encarta. An experienced editor and ghost writer, he offers private tutoring in writing to business executives, scientists, and others interested in improving their skills. A graduate of Binghamton University, Marc holds a doctorate in American studies from the University of Iowa. He has taught at Brown, Brandeis, Cal Tech, USC, UCLA, UC-San Diego, and Syracuse University.
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Excellent Second-Hand History Source of TV Producers,
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This is an excellent second-hand source for media history about several big-name TV producers. I bought it to obtain an overview of Roy Huggins' career in television and this helpful text provided a lot of insight on Huggins as well as other big-name TV producers from the past. If you are into media history from the 1950s to the 1980s, then the chapters on Huggins as well as Glen A. Larson and Michael "Miami Vice" Mann should fascinate and inform you.
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Simply marvelous! Now I understand why I loved I love Lucy.,
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It was like remembering my childhood all over again. If Robert Thompson could only explain the love for the Three Stooges
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