TV on Strike: Why Hollywood Went to War over the Internet

Name: TV on Strike: Why Hollywood Went to War over the Internet
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ISBN: 9780815610083

ISBN-10: 0815610084

ISBN-13: 9780815610083

Edition: 2012

Authors: Cynthia Littleton

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TV on Strike examines the 2007 upheaval in the entertainment industry by telling the inside story of the hundred-day writers’ strike that crippled Hollywood. The television industry’s uneasy transition to the digital age was the driving force behind the most significant labor dispute of the twenty-first century. The strike put a spotlight on how the advent of new-media distribution platforms is reshaping the traditional business models that have governed the entertainment business for decades. The uncertainty that sent writers out into the streets of Los Angeles and New York with picket signs laid bare the depth of the divide, after years of industry consolidation, between the handful of…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr
Binding: Cloth Text
Pages: 288
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Fear of the Unknown



Path to the Picket Line



Sowing the Seeds



Brinksmanship Across the Table



United Showrunners



Angst in the Executive Suite



Rallies, Retrenchment, and Late-Night Returns



Cue the Directors



Deal or No Deal?



The Finish Line



The Bloodletting


Epilogue


Notes


Index