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Essays on the history of HBO, a company designed to please audiences instead of advertisers, and the impact of its distinctive programming: "Recommended." --Choice The founding of Home Box Office in the early 1970s--when it debuted by telecasting a Paul Newman movie and an NHL game to 365 households in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania--was a harbinger of the innovations that would transform television as an industry and a technology in the decades that followed. HBO quickly became synonymous with subscription television--and the leading force in cable programming. Over decades, it's grown from a domestic movie channel to an international powerhouse with a presence in over seventy countries. It is now a full-service content provider with a distinctive brand of original programming, famed for such landmark shows as The Sopranos and Sex and the City. It's brought us Six Feet Under and The Wire, Band of Brothers and Angels in America, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Def Comedy Jam, Inside the NFL and Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, Taxicab Confessions and Autopsy, and multiple Oscar-winning documentaries. The Essential HBO Reader brings together an accomplished group of scholars to explain how HBO's programming transformed the world of television and popular culture, and provides a comprehensive and compelling examination of HBO's development into the prototypical entertainment corporation of the twenty-first century. "An important assessment of the original programming HBO has created in the past few decades?how these programs are derived and what impact they have had." --Choice "A thorough treatment of HBO's programming . . . a useful addition to a growing number of books about American television in the 'post-network' era." --American Studies

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""An important assessment of the original programming HBO has created in the past few decades -- how these programs are derived and what impact they have had. Recommended." -- "Choice"" -- ""Because Edgerton and Jones offer such a thorough treatment of HBO's programming, their volume is a useful addition to a growing number of books about American television in the 'post-network' era."-- "American Studies"" -- ""Coeditors Edgerton and Jones have added a critical component to the study of television and American culture. The result is a fascinating book that is indeed essential reading for anyone with an interest in media history."--Mary Ann Watson, author of "Defining Visions: Television and the American Experi"" -- ""Comprehensive and informative on a topic that deserves to be analyzed in-depth. HBO really did write an important new chapter in television history and has not received the scholarly attention that is its due." --Michael T. Marsden, coeditor of "In the Eye of the Beholder: Critical Perspectives"" -- ""In the ever-expanding universe of cable, satellite and digital broadcasting, the authors explore how HBO fights to remain the frontrunner in innovative programming. Essential reading!"--Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, author of "At the Picture Show: Small Town Audiences and"" -- ""This is a splendid collection of scholarship and critical thinking. The authors have managed to tame and corral a very important aspect of American media history and yet allowed it to remain daring and unconventional."--Terry Lindvall, author of "Surprised by Laughter: The Comic World of C. S. Lewis"" -- ""Describes the complexities and ambiguities of the channel, its history, its unique business model, and its individual programs. Gary Edgerton and Jeffrey Jones have assembled a dream team of television scholars, some of whom have been paying attention to HBO since its debut in 1972. There are a lot of essay collections about television out there these days"--Robert J. Thompson Director, Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture Sy" --


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  • ISBN-13: 9780813143712
  • Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
  • Publisher Imprint: The University Press of Kentucky
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Essential Readers in Contemporary Media and Culture
  • ISBN-10: 0813143713
  • Publisher Date: 24 Jul 2013
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 372


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