Title: A Companion to Television
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     For information, news, and content from Blackwell's reference publishing program please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/reference/
Subjects: History, Nonfiction, Performing Arts, Television