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The New Entrepreneurs

An Institutional History of Television Anthology Writers

By: Jon Kraszewski

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The New Entrepreneurs

An Institutional History of Television Anthology Writers

By: Jon Kraszewski

According to the sociologist C. Wright Mills in his 1951 book, White Collar: The American Middle Classes, the “new entrepreneur” was a lone wolf able to succeed in post–World War II corporate America by elusively meandering through various institutions. During this time, anthology writers such as Rod Serling, Reginald Rose, and Paddy Chayefsky achieved a level of creativity that has rarely been equaled on television since. Yet despite their success, anthology writers still needed to evade the constraints and censorship of 50s television in order to stay true to their creative powers and political visions. Thus they worked as new entrepreneurs who adapted their more controversial scripts for the Hollywood, Broadway, and book publishing industries. Even after the television networks cancelled their prestigious anthology series at the end of the 50s, the most resilient writers were able to redefine what it meant to be entrepreneurs by launching cutting-edge shows such as The Twilight Zone and The Defenders that are still popular today. The New Entrepreneurs includes detailed textual analysis of legendary, sometimes hard-to-find, television anthology scripts that have received only cursory glances in television history until now. Ebook Edition Note: All images have been redacted.

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Wesleyan University Press

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0819571032

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Reality TV

By: Jon Kraszewski

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Reality TV

By: Jon Kraszewski

From early first-wave programs such as Candid Camera, An American Family, and The Real World to the shows on our television screens and portable devices today, reality television consistently takes us to cities—such as New York, Los Angeles, and Boston—to imagine the place of urbanity in American culture and society. Jon Kraszewski offers the first extended account of this phenomenon, as he makes the politics of urban space the center of his history and theory of reality television. Kraszewski situates reality television in a larger economic transformation that started in the 1980s when America went from an industrial economy, when cities were home to all classes, to its post-industrial economy as cities became key points in a web of global financing, expelling all economic classes except the elite and the poor. Reality television in the industrial era reworked social relationships based on class, race, and gender for liberatory purposes, which resulted in an egalitarian ethos in the genre. However, reality television of the post-industrial era attempts to convince viewers that cities still serve their interests, even though most viewers find city life today economically untenable. Each chapter uses a key theoretical concept from spatial theory—such as power geometries, diasporic nostalgia, orientalism, the imagination of social expulsions, and the relationship between the country and the city—to illuminate the way reality television engages this larger transformation of urban space in America.

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Taylor & Francis

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1317806042

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Singletons in a PLC at Work®

Navigating On-Ramps to Meaningful Collaboration

By: Brig Leane,Jon Yost

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Singletons in a PLC at Work®

Navigating On-Ramps to Meaningful Collaboration

By: Brig Leane,Jon Yost

In a professional learning community, isolation is the enemy of school improvement. But what does collaboration among teachers look like when you can’t easily identify with a team? This book will help singleton teachers first develop clarity on learning essentials, then find creative entry points to form collaborative teams. Drawing from their own experiences, the authors offer practical solutions for eliminating the practice of isolation for all educators. Collaborative teams will: Understand what meaningful collaboration is and how singletons can utilize the PLC process Build the groundwork for meaningful collaboration using strategies for your specific situation Implement meaningful collaboration as a singleton across separate schools or within the same school Align disparate singletons under the same unifying PLC process Contents: Chapter 1: Meaningful Collaboration Chapter 2: Singleton On-Ramps for Collaboration Chapter 3: Preparation for Meaningful Collaboration Chapter 4: Course-Alike Entry Point—The Virtual Team Chapter 5: Common-Content Entry Point Chapter 6: Critical-Friend Entry Point Chapter 7: Putting It All Together Afterword: Final Thoughts References and Resources Index

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Solution Tree Press

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1952812887

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9781952812880

The New Entrepreneurs

An Institutional History of Television Anthology Writers

By: Jon Kraszewski

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An Institutional History of Television Anthology Writers

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