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    A Companion to Television
    A Companion to Television
    A Companion to Television
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    A Companion to Television

    By Janet Wasko

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    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/

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWiley
    Release dateApr 15, 2008
    ISBN9781405141468
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