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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Still deserves its classic status today First read '89, at the time I was used it as a supplementary text book for the leaving certificate history (irish state exams). Its a very coherent read of the history of the period. As with all history books keep in mind they are products of the times that they were written in. This was last revised in the early 70s so is showing its age and doesn't benefit from recent research in the area (releases from the government archives, etc) until I can find a better alternate I'd recommend this to anyone as a starting point. 1461 Ireland Since the Famine, by F. S. L. Lyons (read 1 Sep 1977) Except for a few boring chapters this was an absorbing book and told the story of Ireland--so very, very interesting--since 1846 very well. I read The Green Flag: The Turbulent History of the Irish National Movement, by Robert Kee in December of 1972 and was so taken up by its account that I deemed it the best book I read in 1972. But it only went up to 1916. This book is very good on the period from 1916 to 1948. The subject is sheerly fascinating, even if it has no genealogical significance for me. (At the time I read this book genealogy was a new and overriding passion of mine.) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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HTML: Bestselling author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Down and Dirty Pictures, cultural critic Peter Biskind turns his eye toward the new golden age of television, sparked by the fall of play-it-safe network TV and the rise of boundary-busting cable, followed by streaming, which overturned both—based on exclusive, candid, and colorful interviews with executives, writers, showrunners, directors, and actors We are now lucky enough to be living through the era of so-called Peak TV, in which television, in its various guises and formats, has seized the entertainment mantle from movies and dominates our leisure time. How and why this happened is the subject of this book. Instead of focusing on one service, like HBO, Pandora's Box asks, "What did HBO do, besides give us The Sopranos?" The answer: It gave us a revolution. Biskind bites off a big chunk of entertainment history, following HBO from its birth into maturity, moving on to the basic cablers like FX and AMC, and ending up with the streamers and their wars, pitting Netflix against Amazon Prime Video, Max, and the killer pluses—Disney, Apple TV, and Paramount. Since the creative and business sides of TV are thoroughly entwined, Biskind examines both, and the interplay between them. Through frank and shockingly intimate interviews with creators and executives, Pandora's Box investigates the dynamic interplay of commerce and art through the lens the game-changing shows they aired—not only old warhorses like The Sopranos, but recent shows like The White Lotus, Succession, and Yellow- (both -stone and -jackets)—as windows into the byzantine practices of the players as they use money and guile to destroy their competitors. In the end, this book crystal-balls the future in light of the success and failures of the streamers that, after apparently clearing the board, now face life-threatening problems, some self-created, some not. With its long view and short takes—riveting snapshots of behind-the-scenes mischief—Pandora's Box is the only book you'll need to read to understand what's on your small screen and how it got there. .Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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