Toward Freedom Land

by Harvard Sitkoff

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From the Western and the sitcom to the game show and the reality series, genre has been at the center of television's identity since programming began in the 1940s. Thinking Outside the Box: A Contemporary Television Genre Reader brings together some of the best and most challenging scholarship about television genres, exploring their beginnings, their development, and their shaping by creators, networks, and viewers. While television genre was seen as static in the scholarship of the 1980s, Thinking Outside the Box explores the malleable and reflective nature of various TV programs. The book begins with a historical and theoretical...Read more
  • ISBN10 6612937653
  • ISBN13 9786612937651
  • Publish Date 23 July 2010
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 24 August 2011
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University Press of Kentucky
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 232
  • Language English