Take one : television directors on directing /

Kuney, former TV director and professor at Brooklyn College, has selected well-regarded directors including Paul Bogart, Kirk Browning, George Schaefer, and Marc Daniels, each of whom has worked in a specialized form such as opera, comedy, and children's programming, to help explain how directors shape programs in the control room. This approach provides diversity, and there is much of interest here. Unfortunately, Kuney has chosen an ultimately unsatisfactory format, neither question/answer, straight narrative, nor a balanced amalgam, and this really seems to be a vehicle for his own lengthy, and often intrusive, ``insights.'' Tony Verna's Live TV (LJ 12/15/86) is a more useful alternative.-- Roy Liebman, California State Univ. Lib., Los Angeles (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.