PDF-(READ)-Television and American Culture

To understand American popular culture we need to come to grips with the enormous role that television has played in shaping that culture over the past sixty years In this timely and provocative book Jason Mittell provides students with a uniquely thorough look at the medium of televisionExploring television at once as a technological medium an economic system a facet of democracy and a part of everyday life this landmark text uses numerous sidebars and case studies to demonstrate the past immediate and farreaching effects of American culture on televisionand televisionsinfluence on American culture Arranged topically the book provides a broad historical overview of television while also honing in on such finer points as the formal attributes of its various genres and its role in gender and racial identity formationReplete with examples this pedagogically rich text includes many endofchapter case studies and narratives with suggestions for further readingand appropriately viewing Illustrations and photographsprimarily DVD grabscontextualize historical footage and older television programs that maynot be familiar to younger studentsA multidisciplinary approach to American television Television and American Culture is ideal for an array of intermediate undergraduate and beginning graduatelevel courses including Television Criticism Television American Culture Television Society Introduction to Media Studies American Popular Culture Radio TV History of Mass Communication Broadcasting Broadcast ProgrammingFor more information about this book including updates corrections links videos and teaching resources visit the companion website at http tvamericanculturenet. 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