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Tinderbox : HBO's ruthless pursuit of new frontiers / by Miller, James A.(James Andrew),1957-author.(CARDINAL)184019;
Drawing on more than 750 interviews with key sources, an award-winning journalist captures the drama and comedy off-camera and inside boardrooms as HBO created and mobilized a daring new content universe, upending our entertainment lives forever.From its launch in 1972, HBO has been the home of epic shows, as well as the source for brilliant new movies, news-making documentaries, and controversial sports journalism. By thinking big, trashing tired formulas, and killing off clichés long past their primes, HBO led the way to a bolder world of content, opening the door to all that was new, original, and worthy of our attention. With extraordinary access to the most important voices, over the course of more than 750 interviews with key sources, Miller captures the drama and the comedy off-camera and inside boardrooms. As HBO created and mobilized a daring new content universe, it reshaped storytelling and upended our entertainment lives forever. -- adapted from jacket
Subjects: Interviews.; Home Box Office (Firm); Home Box Office (Firm); Cable television; Subscription television;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Inside HBO : the billion dollar war between HBO, Hollywood, and the home video revolution / by Mair, George,1929-(CARDINAL)161263;
Subjects: Home Box Office (Firm); Cable television; Motion picture industry;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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It's not TV : the spectacular rise, revolution, and future of HBO / by Gillette, Felix,author.(CARDINAL)860183; Koblin, John,author.(CARDINAL)860184;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-391) and index.Prologue: taking flight -- Part I: the upstarts (1978-1995) -- Surviving the premiere -- Punch lines -- the unsweet science -- That "cable edge" -- Quality noise -- Part II: into the shadows (1995-1999) -- The land of Oz -- A glamorous playground -- Shooting the moon -- The ground floor -- Part III: band of shruggers (1998-2007) -- Part IV: the night is dark and full of Netflix (2007-2018) -- HBOver -- Fresh blood -- The Albanian army -- Flying blind -- Send a raven -- A clogged pipeline -- AOL deja vu -- Part V: HBO to themax (2018-2022) -- Dawn of the Bell heads -- It's just TV -- The traumatic arts -- Crimes of the past."The riveting inside story of HBO, the start-up company that reinvented television--by two veteran media reporters HBO changed how stories could be told on TV. The Sopranos, Sex and the City, The Wire, Game of Thrones. The network's meteoric rise heraldedthe second golden age of television with serialized shows that examined and reflected American anxieties, fears, and secret passions through complicated characters who were flawed and often unlikable. HBO's own behind-the-scenes story is as complex, compelling, and innovative as the dramas the network created, driven by unorthodox executives who pushed the boundaries of what viewers understood as television at the turn of the century. Originally conceived by a small upstart group of entrepreneurs to bringHollywood movies into living rooms across America, the scrappy network grew into one of the most influential and respected players in Hollywood. It's Not TV is the deeply reported, definitive story of one of America's most daring and popular cultural institutions, laying bare HBO's growth, dominance, and vulnerability within the capricious media landscape over the past fifty years. Through the visionary executives, showrunners, and producers who shaped HBO, seasoned journalists Gillette and Koblin bringto life a dynamic cast of characters who drove the company's creative innovation in astonishing ways-outmaneuvering copycat competitors, taming Hollywood studios, transforming 1980s comedians and athletes like Chris Rock and Mike Tyson into superstars, and in the late 1990s and 2000s elevating the commercial-free, serialized drama to a revered art form. But in the midst of all its success, HBO was also defined by misbehaving executives, internal power struggles, and a few crucial miscalculations. As data-driven models like Netflix have taken over streaming, HBO's artful, instinctual, and humanistic approach to storytelling is in jeopardy. Taking readers into the boardrooms and behind the camera, It's Not TV tells the surprising, fascinating story of HBO'sascent, its groundbreaking influence on American business, technology, and popular culture, and its increasingly precarious position in the very market it created"--
Subjects: Case studies.; Home Box Office (Firm); Television production companies;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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The knick: The complete first season. [videorecording] by Holland, Andr??actor.; Owen, Clive,actor.(CARDINAL)349521; Perkins, Katrina E.actor.; Home Box Office (Firm)film distributor.(CARDINAL)165002;
Subjects: Television series.; Hospitals; Hospitals; Medical television programs.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Silicon Valley. [videorecording] by Altschuler, John,creator.(CARDINAL)341204; Brener, Josh,actor.(CARDINAL)341193; Crew, Amanda,1986-actor.(CARDINAL)341189; Judge, Mike,creator.(CARDINAL)341205; Krinsky, Dave,approximately 1963-creator.(CARDINAL)341203; Middleditch, Thomas,actor.(CARDINAL)341194; Miller, T. J.,1981-actor.(CARDINAL)340056; Nanjiani, Kumail,actor.(CARDINAL)341192; Starr, Martin,1982-actor.(CARDINAL)341191; Welch, Christopher Evan,actor.(CARDINAL)552202; Home Box Office (Firm)film distributor.(CARDINAL)165002;
Subjects: Television comedies.; Application software; Businesspeople; Computer engineers; Computer programmers; Data compression (Computer science); New business enterprises;
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Children underground [videorecording] / by Belzberg, Edet,direction.; Goodman, Joel.; Held, Wolfgang.; Ionescu, Cristina.; Oppenheim, John.; Tudose, Mihai Alexandre.; Belzberg Films.; ChildHope International.; Cinemax (Firm); Docurama (Firm)(CARDINAL)215269; Home Box Office (Firm)(CARDINAL)165002; New Video Group.(CARDINAL)219113;
Subjects: Documentary films.; Homeless children; Runaway children;
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Oral history [videorecording] : a century of living / by Abounader, Jean.(CARDINAL)309348; Duggan, Brian,1941-2010.(CARDINAL)227698; Horváth, Imre.; Shragge, Lawrence.(CARDINAL)222549; Films for the Humanities (Firm)(CARDINAL)152422; Home Box Office (Firm)(CARDINAL)165002;
Director, Imre Horvath ; producer, Jean Abounader ; director of photography, Brian Duggan ; music, Lawrence Shragge.An oral history of the United States during the 20th century as told by people born in 1900 or earlier. Includes archival footage of the events that shaped the past hundred years.Adults.VHS.
Subjects: Oral history.;
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Death in Gaza [videorecording] / by Miller, James,1968-2003.; Shah, Saira.; Frostbite Films.; HBO Video (Firm)(CARDINAL)347268; Home Box Office (Firm)(CARDINAL)165002;
Subjects: Miller, James, 1968-2003.; Al-Aqsa Intifada, 2000-; Arab-Israeli conflict.; Children and war;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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You are all diseased [videorecording] by Carlin, George.; Rickabaugh, Kimber.; Cablestuff Productions, Inc.; Home Box Office (Firm)(CARDINAL)165002; MPI Home Video (Firm)(CARDINAL)337217;
Recorded live at the Beacon Theatre in New York City in 1999.George Carlin performing stand-up comedy.DVD.
Subjects: American wit and humor.; Stand-up comedy.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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One night stand. [videorecording] / by Clement, Jemaine,performer,screenwriter.; Gray, Lauren,producer.; McKenzie, Bret,performer,screenwriter.; Mendoza, Linda,director.; Flight of the Conchords (Musical group); HBO Home Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)348533; Warner Home Video (Firm)(CARDINAL)218485;
Jemaine Clement, Bret McKenzie.Watch the real Flight of the Conchords debut on HBO's One night stand, in front of a live audience.Rating: TV-MA.DVD ; Dolby Digital 2.0; aspect ratio 4:3.
Subjects: Television comedies.; Television musicals.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Flight of the Conchords (Musical group);
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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