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How to Watch Television, Second Edition Paperback - 2020

by Ethan Thompson (Editor); Jason Mittell (Editor)


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  • Title How to Watch Television, Second Edition
  • Author Ethan Thompson (Editor); Jason Mittell (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New York University Press
  • Date 2020-03-31
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9781479898817 / 1479898813
  • Weight 1.65 lbs (0.75 kg)
  • Dimensions 10 x 7 x 1 in (25.40 x 17.78 x 2.54 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Television programs - Social aspects -, Television programs - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2019029653
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.457

About the author

Ethan Thompson is Professor of Media Arts at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. He is the author of Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture and co-editor of Television History, the Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory and Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era. He directed the documentary TV Family about a forgotten forerunner to reality television.

Jason Mittell is Professor of Film & Media Culture at Middlebury College. His books include Genre & Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture, Television & American Culture, and Complex Television: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling, and Narrative Theory and Adaptation. He is project manager for [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, and author of numerous video essays.

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