Open TV: Innovation Beyond Hollywood and the Rise of Web Television

by Aymar Christian

Book Overview

How the internet transformed television

Before HBO's hit show Insecure, Issa Rae's comedy about being a nerdy black woman debuted as a YouTube web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, her response to the absence of diverse black characters on the small screen. Broad City, a feminist sitcom now on Comedy Central, originated as a web series on YouTube, developed directly out of funny women Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479815977
• ISBN13: 9781479815975
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"