No other cultural phenomenon has excited audiences and makers in recent memory as much as the rise of the epic TV series. Fascinating viewers with stories of previously unseen psychological, moral and social complexity, the epic TV series has been hailed as the most important new art form since the arrival of 19th century music drama. Its birth took place on 12 July 1997 when HBO premiered Tom Fontana‘s phantasmagorical prison drama Oz which would awe American audiences for 56 episodes over six seasons. It was the success of Oz which encouraged HBO to commission another epic series for 1999, The Sopranos. The rest is history as they say. Tom Fontana has since been creating, writing and producing several other series, most recently the crime series Copper and the period drama Borgia, the third season of which premieres this autumn.
After hosting Vince Gilligan, the creator of Breaking Bad, in the summer of 2013, the WZB is now proud to welcome the recipient of three Primetime Emmys and multiple other awards, Tom Fontana, for an event charting, both, the artistic and the economic revolution that changed the face of TV over the last one and a half decades.
Information on participating / attending:
The WZB provides child care during the lecture. If you are interested, please respond by November 13, 2014, indicating the number of children and their age to Marie Unger: marie.unger@wzb.eu.
Date:
11/20/2014 17:00 - 11/20/2014 19:00
Registration deadline:
11/19/2014
Event venue:
Reichpietschufer 50, Raum A 300
10785 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
Journalists, all interested persons
Email address:
Relevance:
transregional, national
Subject areas:
Art / design, Cultural sciences, Social studies
Types of events:
Seminar / workshop / discussion
Entry:
11/06/2014
Sender/author:
Dr. Paul Stoop
Department:
Informations- und Kommunikationsreferat
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event49065
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