Television Directors, Race, and Gender - Written Out of the Story

This book challenges the predominant framing of US television as a writer's or producer's medium by suggesting that television directors are a vital component of TV artistry.

List of contents

Introduction
Part I: Directors from Other Mediums
1. "Marty": Delbert Mann, Paddy Chayefsky, and Live Television Direction
2. Martin Scorsese: The Blues, Boardwalk Empire, Vinyl, and Celebrity Filmmakers as TV Auteurs
Part II: Television Directors from Marginalized Backgrounds
3. Hill Street Blues: Randa Haines, Gabrielle Beaumont, and Women Directors in Television History
4. NYPD Blue: Paris Barclay, Blackness, Whiteness, and the Cop Show
5. The Sopranos: Lorraine Senna vs. David Chase and Pilot Episode Directors
Conclusion: Included in the Picture

About the author

Jonathan J. Cavallero is Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies at Bates College and the Founding Director of the Bates Film Festival. He is the author of Hollywood's Italian American Filmmakers: Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino (2011) and the co-editor (with Laura E. Ruberto) of Italian American Review's special journal issue on "Italian Americans and Television" (2016). His scholarship has appeared in a number of journals including Cinema Journal/Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Journal of Film and Video, Journal of Popular Film and Television, The Journal of Popular Culture, MELUS, and Diasporic Italy.

Summary

This book challenges the predominant framing of US television as a writer’s or producer’s medium by suggesting that television directors are a vital component of TV artistry.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan J. Cavallero, Cavallero Jonathan J.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.08.2024
• EAN: 9781032629957
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3262995-7
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Routledge Advances in Television Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; History, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / Direction & Production, The arts, Radio & television industry, Humanities, Gender studies, gender groups, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society, Film, TV and Radio industries