A Companion to Television

• Author(s): Janet Wasko,
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Pages: 648
• ISBN_10: 140519877X
  ISBN_13: 9781405198776
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / Media Studies ,

Description:... A Companion to Television is a magisterial collection of 31 original essays that charter the field of television studies over the past century

• Explores a diverse range of topics and theories that have led to television’s current incarnation, and predict its likely future
• Covers technology and aesthetics, television’s relationship to the state, televisual commerce; texts, representation, genre, internationalism, and audience reception and effects
• Essays are by an international group of first-rate scholars

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