Description
Product ID: | 9780571303809 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Difficult Men |
Subtitle: | From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad |
Authors: | Author: Brett Martin |
Page Count: | 320 |
Subjects: | Television, Television |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Difficult Men is an insightful history of popular US TV drama which traces the emergence of shows such as The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Mad Men and The Wire, and explores their engagement with important social issues around love, sexuality, race and violence. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, a wave of TV shows, first on premium cable channels like HBO and then basic cable networks like FX and AMC, dramatically stretched television''s inventiveness, emotional resonance and ambition. Shows such as The Wire, Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, Mad Men, Deadwood, The Shield tackled issues of life and death, love and sexuality, addiction, race, violence and existential boredom. |
Imprint Name: | Faber & Faber |
Publisher Name: | Faber & Faber |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2013-10-03 |