Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status

by Elana Levine and Michael Z. Newman

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Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status explores how and why television is gaining a new level of cultural respectability in the 21st century. Once looked down upon as a "plug-in drug" offering little redeeming social or artistic value, television is now said to be in a creative renaissance, with critics hailing the rise of Quality series such as Mad Men and 30 Rock. Likewise, DVDs and DVRs, web video, HDTV, and mobile devices...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0415880262

ISBN13:9780415880268

Release Date:October 2011

Publisher:Routledge

Length:232 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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