Many children fall in love with Disney at a young age—through its songs, stories, and characters that help shape the emotional arc of childhood. But what happens when that attachment doesn’t fade with age? Disney Adults sets out to explore what it means when childhood fandom becomes a lasting adult identity. What Is a Disney…
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It’s Not TV The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO
‘It’s Not TV’ gives a decades-spanning overview of the HBO cable/streaming network. What started as the destination for the Thrilla in Manilla, HBO would go on to cement itself as the place for groundbreaking, and prestige television. Though the present-day challenges are also discussed as the network faces the difficult reality of transitioning from a…
How to Win the Bachelor
So what does it take to write a book on ‘The Bachelor’? The research process itself is daunting. The American version of the show spans double-digit seasons across multiple decades. So to research their subject the journalists undertook a process called the hyperbinge, watching all seasons over 72 days at 2x speed, documenting the strategies…
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