The DVD Novel: How the Way We Watch Television Changed the Television We Watch

by Greg Metcalf

Now that television shows can live forever as DVD sets, the stories they can tell have changed; television episodes are now crafted as chapters in a season-long novel instead of free-standing stories. This book examines how this significant shift in storytelling occurred.

In 1981, NBC's Hill Street Blues combined the cop show and the soap opera to set the model for primetime serial storytelling, which is evident in The Sopranos,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313385815
• ISBN13: 9780313385810
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"