Beyond Television TV Production in the Multiplatform Era

by Halskov, Andreas; Peyton, Harley

• ISBN13: 9788740833508
• ISBN10: 874083350X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2021-09-01
• Publisher: University Press of Southern Denmark

Summary

Since the cable revolution of the 1990s and early 2000s, the TV landscape has changed dramatically. Beyond Television explores the modern mediascape and changes in television production through analyses of prominent TV series (e.g. True Detective, Transparent, Better Call Saul, Stranger Things, Twin Peaks: The Return, and Euphoria) and interviews with more than 100 people from the industry, including David Chase, David Simon, Mary Harron, Nic Pizzolatto, Beau Willimon, Tricia Brock, Jesse Armstrong, Jay Duplass, Joel Fields, Tom Fontana, Angela Kang, Peter Gould, Derek Cianfrance, Tom Perrotta, Sabrina Sutherland, and Sam Levinson.

Author Biography

Andreas Halskov (b. 1981) holds an MA in Film Studies from Copenhagen University. Halskov is a lecturer in Media Studies and works as a film and TV expert and as a curator of film historical screenings for The Danish Film Institute, besides being an editor of the scholarly film journal 16:9. Halskov has published numerous articles and books and has co-written and edited three anthologies about modern American TV drama and television in the age of streaming. Harley Peyton is a producer and writer, known for Twin Peaks, Bandits, and Friends with Benefits.

Table of Contents

Foreword (by writer-producer Harley Peyton) 6 Preface & Acknowledgements 7 Part I: Beyond the TV Landscape: Industry & Infrastructure 9 Chapter 1: “It’s Not TV. It’s HBO”: Prestige Television and Not-TV Branding in the Cable Era 15 Feature Interview #1: The Cable Vanguard: Interview with Tom Fontana (Oz), David Chase (The Sopranos) and David Simon (The Wire) 40 Chapter 2: TV in the Age of Plenty: Streaming, Bingeing and Redefining Television 53 Feature Interview #2: The Pioneers of Streaming: Interview with Anne Bjørnstad & Eilif Skodvin (Lilyhammer) and Beau Willimon (House of Cards) 82 Chapter 3: Beyond Borders: Transnational Television and Glocal Perspectives 93 Feature Interview #3: Local is Global: Interview with Kelly Luegenbiehl (Vice President of Local-Language Originals, Netflix) 124 Part II: Beyond Traditional Television: New Approaches to Storytelling, Style and Genre 131 Chapter 4: A Complex Affair: Transmedia Storytelling and Complex TV 135 Feature Interview #4: Building Worlds & Crafting Stories: Interview with Angela Kang (The Walking Dead) and Mark Frost (Twin Peaks) 169 Chapter 5: The Art of Television: Stylistic Experimentation and TV Auteurism 176 Feature Interview #5: Artists and Tele-visionaries: Interview with Sabrina Sutherland (Twin Peaks: The Return), Peter Gould (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul), Mary Harron (Alias Grace) and Derek Cianfrance (I Know This Much Is True) 246 Chapter 6: Unboxing Television: Hybridity and New Approaches to Genre 263 Feature Interview #6: Beyond the Generic: Interview with Nic Pizzolatto (True Detective), Sam Levinson (Euphoria) and Jay Duplass (Togetherness, Transparent) 337 Epilogue: Television in the Multiplatform Era 350 Bibliography 356 Notes 373