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

by Cynthia Littleton

Book Overview

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"