"TV content is currently available through various communication channels and devices, including digital TV, mobile TV, and Internet TV. However, with the increase in TV content volume, both its management and consumption become more and more challenging. Thoroughly describing T…
"TV content is currently available through various communication channels and devices, including digital TV, mobile TV, and Internet TV. However, with the increase in TV content volume, both its management and consumption become more and more challenging. Thoroughly describing T…
Transmedia Television uses empirical audience research to explore attitudes towards the dramatic changes that television has undergone since the turn of the twenty-first century due to the development of digital technologies. It asks to what extent audiences are embracing these …
Foreword / by Jon Burlingame -- Introduction -- Defending range justice on the tube -- Coming of age on the tv frontier -- The western Disney style and the pivotal years -- From Wagon train and Bonanza to The Virginian and The big valley -- The made-for western saddles up -- The…
Television in the Age of Radio is a unique account of how television came to be, not just from technical innovations or institutional struggles, but from cultural concerns that were central to the rise of industrial modernity. A major revision of the history of television, it pr…
"We all have opinions about the television shows we watch, but television criticism is about much more than simply evaluating the merits of a particular show and deeming it 'good' or 'bad.' Rather, criticism uses the close examination of a television program to explore that prog…
Contrasting strong women and multiculturalism with portrayals of a heroic white male leading the nation into battle, The Prime-Time Presidency explores the NBC drama The West Wing, paying particular attention to its role in promoting cultural meaning about the presidency and U.S…
