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TV on Strike - Why Hollywood Went to War Over the Internet (Hardcover)
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TV on Strike - Why Hollywood Went to War Over the Internet (Hardcover)
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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 labour 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 have
governed the entertainment business for decades. The uncertainty
that sent writers out into the streets of Los Angeles and New York
with picket signs laid bare the depth of the divide, after years of
industry consolidation, between the handful of media barons who
rule Hollywood and the writers whose works support the industry.
With both sides afraid of losing millions in future profits, a
critical communication breakdown spurred a brief but fierce fight
with repercussions that continue today. The saga of the Writers
Guild of America strike is told here as seen through the eyes of
key players on both sides of the negotiating table and of the foot
soldiers who shocked even themselves with the strength of their
resolve to fight for their rights in the face of an ambiguous
future.
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