How to Watch Television, Second Edition

A new edition that brings the ways we watch and think about television up to the present
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.
How to Watch Television, Second Edition brings together forty original essays¿more than half of which are new to this edition¿from 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, demonstrating one way to read the program and, through it, our media culture. From fashioning blackness in Empire to representation in Orange is the New Black and from the role of the reboot in Gilmore