A Companion to Television is a magisterial collection of original essays thatchart 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 thathave led to televisions current incarnation, and predict its likely future. From technology and aesthetics, televisions 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.
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-9877-6
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 648
- Fecha Publicación: 04/12/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés