Difficult men. Dai «Soprano» a «Breaking Bad», gli antieroi delle serie tv
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Sul finire degli anni Novanta, le serie televisive americane hanno riscritto le regole della narrazione classica. Uno degli aspetti più importanti di questa rivoluzione riguarda i personaggi rappresentati, non più eroi tutti d'un pezzo ma creature moralmente ambigue. Veri e propri antieroi sono, infatti, i protagonisti dei Soprano, di Mad Men, The Wire, Breaking Bad e Game of Thrones. Attraverso un racconto del dietro le quinte di queste serie e approfondite interviste a showrunner e autori coinvolti nella loro realizzazione, "Difficult Men" ricostruisce con grande abilità un inedito profilo degli antieroi seriali più significativi di questo inizio secolo. I villain delle serie tv riescono a suscitare la nostra empatia e ci permettono di calarci nei panni di chi si spinge oltre il lecito, ponendoci di fronte a dilemmi etici e a scelte sbagliate che non prenderemmo mai nella vita. Scopriremo inoltre che David Chase, Matthew Weiner, Vince Gilligan e David Simon, tra gli altri, sono persone reali complesse e interessanti quanto i personaggi da loro creati. Il dialogo diretto con gli autori consente a Martin di mettere a fuoco il valore di rottura di titoli che, come ha scritto il Guardian, possono essere considerati per la tv l'equivalente di Roth, Updike e Mailer per la narrativa e di Scorsese, Altman e Coppola per il cinema. Prefazione di Aldo Grasso.
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- Pagine: 294
- Data di uscita: 25-10-2018
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Damn, could that sub-title be any longer? This is the second book published recently that takes a look at the wave of shows that changed television since the turn of the century, but there’s a couple of key differences from Alan Sepinwall’s The Revolution Was Televised . Sepinwall gave a wider overvie Leggi tutto
As the subtitle of this book suggests, Brett Martin sets out to describe the story of a creative revolution in television that began in the late 1990s and early 2000s and produced what Martin describes as the third Golden Age of television. This revolution occurred principally on cable and was led by Leggi tutto
Difficult Men is well written and researched and I did enjoy it. While reading it, though, something began gnawing at me roughly 50 pages in. Difficult Men feels like two separate books fused into one, and the result is ultimately unsatisfying. I'd wager that nearly 70 percent of the book is about Th Leggi tutto
Difficult Men was a highly entertaining chronicle of the men who created, starred in, and were portrayed in the past decade of quality drama series. Showrunners, once unknown scribes, took on the role of "auteur" stamping each series with their own personal mark and agenda, and creating universes th Leggi tutto
This is a book about the TV revolution of the late 1990s/ early 2000s; but it is also about how much one can get away with when they are a male creator of a successful show. Now, the "difficult men" concept / conceit does not work equally well with all creators and creations under discussion. Sure,
DIFFICULT MEN is one of two books about the prestige cable revolution in the past year (along with Alan Sepinwall's THE REVOLUTION IS TELEVISED). Martin is a reporter as opposed to a TV critic, and as a result his account focuses primarily on a behind the scenes account of the making of the standard Leggi tutto
I enjoyed this book, it was cool to see the back-stories of HBO, Mad Men & The Wire, etc. Like others have pointed out, 60% percent of it was about the Sopranos, it seemed like the Brett Martin actually wanted to write a book about the Sopranos, and although Walter White is on the cover, Breaking Ba Leggi tutto
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