Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status

by Elana Levine and Michael Z. Newman

Book Overview

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"