Hollywood TV: The Studio System in the Fifties

I enjoy Movie and Television History, so ordered this book. It reads more like a school text book, but has decent historical account with good illustrations.It serves my purpose well providing useful history going back to early movie studio days and the transition into television as well as mass media.It is not a reference book, so not good for just looking up information although it does contain useful information in the back of the book.Overall, I would recommend this book to anyone who is a Movie or TV buff and likes the history about the industry and how things came about.

This book is based on a very thorough reseach. As the title tells this books is about the attitudes of major studios toward TV in the early fifties. There is lot of interesting data, though this book is not for a general public, but rather for those who really care about TV history. It is very useful to know something about the studios in order to enjoy this book. Recommended for those wanting to know how the big studios thought about TV and what their methods were.