Inside prime time /
Todd Gitlin
- New York : Pantheon Books, 1983
- ix, 369 p.
Nothing succeds like success, 4. -- The problem of knowing, 19. -- Predicting the unpredictable, 31. -- By the numbers, 47. -- Making schedules, 47. -- The triumph of the synthetic : Spinoffs, copies, recombinant culture, 63. -- Another american dream gone astray, 86. -- The television industrial complex, 115. -- Inside tracks in a small world, 115. -- The deal is the art form, 143. -- Movies of the week, 157. -- The politics of prime time, 203. -- The turn toward relevance, 203. -- Shifting : Yesterday's Vietnam, today's FBI, 221. -- The far rightreours shake the temple of commerce, 247. -- The temple stands, 264. -- Hill street blues : Make it look messy, 273