How to Watch Television Second Edition by Ethan Thompson HARDBACK 9781479890637

New York University Press

How to Watch Television, Second EditionAuthor(s): Ethan Thompson, Jason Mittell\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479890637, 978-1479890637\nSynopsis\nA new edition that brings the ways we watch and think about television up to the present\n 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 program's cultural significance, creative strategies, and its place in a broader social context.\n How to Watch Television, Second Edition brings together forty original essaysmore than half of which are new to this editionfrom today's leading scholars on television culture, who write about the programs they care (and think) the most about. Each essay focuses on a single television show, ]