Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status

Legitimating Television -- Another Golden Age? -- The Showrunner As Auteur -- Upgrading The Situation Comedy -- Not A Soap Opera -- The Television Image And The Image Of The Television -- Technologies Of Agency -- Television Scholarship And/as Legitimation. By Michael Z. Newman And Elana Levine. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [196]-205) And Index.