Publication Date: 2016-11-13
Television critic, professor and writer David Bianculli traces the evolutionary history of television in his new book, The Platinum Age of TV: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific. He interviewed creators, directors, writers and actors - everyone from Mel Brooks to Vince Gilligan to Amy Schumer to Louis CK. He also argues that only recently, TV criticism and studies have started to gain the respect and traction that film studies started to collect in the 1980s. 
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