Difficult Men: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad

ISBN-13: 9780571303809 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 320 str.

Brett Martin

Opis

Shows such as The Wire, The Sopranos, Mad Men, Deadwood, The Shield tackled issues of life and death, love and sexuality, addiction, race and violence. This revolution happened at the hands of a new breed of auteur: the all-powerful writer-show runner. This book features extensive interviews with all the major players.

Recenzje

... this high resolution snapshot of American television ... is convincing as a discussion of the relationship between the economics of television and its creativity ... It also shines a light on the obscurely collaborative processes by which episodes of dramas get beaten into shape in writers' rooms ... It's core, however, pulsates with some of the most entertaining profiles of writers since Dr Johnson's Lives of the Poets. The Times

O autorze

Brett Martin is a correspondent for GQ and a 2012 James Beard Journalism Award winner.
His work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Gourmet, Bon Appetit, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Food & Wine, and multiple anthologies.
He is a frequent contributor to This American Life.