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

by Cynthia Littleton

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815610084
• ISBN13: 9780815610083
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"