Author: Michael MouldsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
International Index to Television Periodicals, 1983-1986
Author: Michael MouldsInternational Index to Film Periodicals
Author: International Index to Television Periodicals, 1983-1986
Author: Michael MouldsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780906973172
Category : Television
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
From Reliable Sources
Author: Martha C. HowellPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801485602
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A lively introduction to historical methodology, an overview of the techniques historians must master in order to reconstruct the past.
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
BFI Film and Television Handbook
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion picture industry
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
The Classical Hollywood Reader
Author: Stephen NealePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415576725
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Film and Television Handbook
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion picture industry
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Apocalypse Television
Author: David CraigPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493079182
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
On November 20, 1983, a three-hour made-for-TV movie The Day After premiered on ABC. Set in the heartland of Lawrence, Kansas, the film depicted the events before, during, and after a Soviet nuclear attack with vivid scenes of the post-apocalyptic hellscape that would follow. The film was viewed by over 100 million Americans and remains the highest rated TV movie in history. After the premiere, ABC News aired an episode of Viewpoint, a live special featuring some of the most prominent public intellectuals of the debating the virtues of the Arms Race and the prospect of a winnable nuclear war. The response to the film proved more powerful than perhaps any film or television program in the history of media. Aside from its record-shattering Nielsen ratings, it enjoyed critical acclaim as well as international box office success in theatrical screenings. The path to primetime for The Day After proved nearly as treacherous as the film’s narrative. Battles ensued behind the scenes at the network, between the network and the filmmakers, with Broadcast Standards and Ad Sales, in the edit room and on the set, including the “nuke-mares” experienced by the cast. After the director was pushed aside, he contemplated suicide while also engineering a comeback through the press. But these skirmishes pale in comparison to the culture wars triggered by the film in the press, alongside a growing Nuclear Freeze movement, and from a united, pro-nuclear Right. Once efforts to alter the script failed, the White House conducted a full-throttled propaganda campaign to hijack the film’s message. Apocalypse Television features a dramatic insider’s account of the making of and backlash against The Day After. No other book has told this story in similar fashion, venturing behind-the-scenes of the programming and news divisions at ABC, Reagan officials in the White House who mounted the propaganda campaign, rogue publicists who hijacked the film to promote a Nuclear Freeze, the backlash from the conservative movement and Religious Right, the challenges encountered by film’s production team from conception to reception, and the experiences of the citizens of Lawrence, Kansas, where the film was set and shot, if also, ground zero in America’s nuclear heartland.