Format:
DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:
Television event [videorecording]/ producers, Jeff Daniels, Amanda Spain ; director, Jeff Daniels.
Publisher, Date:
Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, [2024]
Description:
2 videodiscs (160 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:
Television Event is an archive-based feature documentary that views the dramatic climax of the Cold War through the lens of a commercial television network, as it narrowly succeeds in producing the most watched, most controversial made-for-TV movie, The Day After (1983). With irreverent humor and sobering apocalyptic vision, this film reveals how a commercial broadcaster seized a moment of unprecedented television viewership, made an emotional connection with an audience of over 100 million, and forced an urgent conversation with the US President on how to collectively confront and resolve the most pressing issue of the time - nuclear proliferation.
Subjects:
Day after (Motion picture)
Cold War.
Apocalypse in motion pictures.
Motion pictures -- Influence -- Case studies.
Science fiction films -- History and criticism.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.
DVD-Video discs.
Genre:
Documentary films.
Other Author:
Daniels, Jeff.
Spain, Amanda.
Meyer, Nicholas.
Anthony, Ellen.
Austin, Stephanie.
Media Education Foundation.
Notes:
One DVD is the feature-length 91 minute version, the other DVD is the abridged 59 minute version.
Title from container.
Originally produced in 2020.
Nicholas Meyer, Ted Koppel, Stephanie Austin, Ellen Anthony, Stu Samuels.
DVD, wide screen.
English dialogue; English subtitles.
Other Number:
1416918330
System Availability:
6
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
611224
Call Number:
DVD 791.437 Televis 2024 2DVD
Course Reserves:
0
# System items in:
6
Medium:
[videorecording]