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Pandora’s Box How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV


Free Download Pandora’s Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV by Peter Biskind
English | November 7, 2023 | ISBN: 0062991663 | True EPUB | 400 pages | 1.2 MB
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

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Pandora’s Box How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV [Audiobook]


Free Download Pandora’s Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BJ17328C | 2023 | 12 hours and 40 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 324 MB
Author: Peter Biskind
Narrator: Robert Petkoff

Bestselling author and 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, that 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.

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