A Companion to Television Contributor(s): Wasko, Janet (Editor) |
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ISBN: 140510094X ISBN-13: 9781405100946 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell OUR PRICE: $237.03 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2005 Annotation: "A Companion to Television "is a magisterial collection of original essays that chart the history of television from its inception to the present day. Over 30 leading scholars across the humanities and social sciences look at television scholarship as it responded to technological, institutional, and aesthetic changes around the world. The essays cover a myriad of topics and theories that have led to television's current incarnation, and predict its likely future. From technology and aesthetics, television's relationship to the state, televisual commerce, texts, representation, genre, internationalism, and audience reception and effects, "A Companion to Television "is an invaluable reference for understanding the significance of television in the modern and postmodern world. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Television - History & Criticism - Social Science | Popular Culture - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism |
Dewey: 791.45 |
LCCN: 2005000692 |
Series: Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies |
Physical Information: 1.54" H x 7.22" W x 9.88" (2.85 lbs) 648 pages |
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Publisher Description: A Companion to Television is a magisterial collection of 31 original essays that charter the field of television studies over the past century
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