Television Finales (eBook)

From Howdy Doody to Girls

Douglas L. Howard, David Bianculli (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
Syracuse University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8156-5447-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Today more than ever, series finales have become cultural touchstones that feed watercooler fodder and Twitter storms among a committed community of viewers. While the final episodes of The Fugitive and M*A*S*H continue to rank among the highest rated broadcasts, more recent shows draw legions of binge-watching fans. Given the importance of finales to viewers and critics alike, Howard and Bianculli along with the other contributors explore these endings and what they mean to the audience, both in terms of their sense of narrative and as episodes that epitomize an entire show. Bringing together a veritable "who’s who" of television scholars, journalists, and media experts, including Robert Thompson, Martha Nochimson, Gary Edgerton, David Hinckley, Kim Akass, and Joanne Morreale, the book offers commentary on some of the most compelling and often controversial final episodes in television history. Each chapter is devoted to a separate finale, providing readers with a comprehensive survey of these watershed moments. Gathering a unique international lineup of journalists and media scholars, the book also offers readers an intriguing variety of critical voices and perspectives.

Autor

Douglas L. Howard is academic chair of the English Department on the Ammerman Campus at Suffolk County Community College. He is the editor of Dexter: Investigating Cutting Edge Television and a coeditor of The Essential Sopranos Reader.

David Bianculli has been a TV critic since 1975, currently runs the website TVWorthWatching.com, and serves as guest host for NPR’s Fresh Air. He is the author of The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to The Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.11.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Television and Popular Culture
• Reihe/Serie: Television and Popular Culture
• Co-Autor: Sam Ford, Karen Hellekson, Ensley F. Guffey, David Diffrient, Martha P. Nochimson, Barbara Villez, K. Dale Koontz, Elizabeth L. Rambo, Erika Johnson-Lewis, Mitchell E. Shapiro, Keith Brand, Jeff Thompson, Lori Bindig, Sue Turnbull, Renee Middlemost, Mark Dawidziak, David Hinckley, Stephen Spignesi, Alice Leppert, Shelley Cobb, Hannah Hamad, Stacey Abbott, Katheryn Wright, Eric Gould, Ron Wilson, Jonathan Nichols-Pethick, Douglas Snauffer, Clinton Bryant, Michael Donovan, Jeffrey Bussolini, Stephanie Graves, Teresa Forde, Dean DeFino, Trisha Dunleavy, Nikki Stafford, Dana A. Heller, Stan Beeler, Cynthia Burkhead, Joanne Morreale, Asokan Nirmalarajah, J. Jeremy Wisnewski, Bill Yousman, Deborah Jermyn, Lincoln Geraghty, Michele Byers, Zeke Jarvis, Kim Akass, Amanda Potter, Gary R. Edgerton, Lynne Hibberd, Robert Thompson, Jason P. Vest, Amy M. Damico, Bill Brioux, Lynnette Porter, Adam Ochonicky, Joseph S. Walker, Gary Gravely, Brett Mills, Paul Wright, Lorna Jewett
• Verlagsort: Syracuse
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 30 Rock • Ashes to Ashes • As the World Turns • Babylon 5 • Barney Miller • Battlestar Galactica • Boston Legal • Breaking Bad • Buffy the Vampire Slayer • carnivale • Cheers • Dark Shadows • Dawson's Creek • Dexter • Downton Abbey • ER • family ties • finales • Friends • fringe • Gilmore Girls • Hill Street Blues • homicide • House, MD • Howdy Doody • How I met your mother • Jerico • justified • Life on Mars • Lost • Mad Men • MASH • moonlighting • Newhart • nichols • Nurse Jackie • OZ • Prime Suspect • Quantum Leap • rectify • Roseanne • seinfeld • Sex and the City • Six Feet Under • Smallville • Sons of Anarchy • spaced • Star Trek: the Next Generation • St. Elsewhere • television and popular culture • That was the week that was • The Colbert Report • The Dick Van Dyke Show • The Fugitive • The Larry Sanders Show • The L Word • The Mary Tyler Moore Show • The Office • The Prisoner • The Shield • The Sopranos • The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson • The West Wing • The Wire • The X-files • Torchwood • True Blood • TV Finales • TV shows • Twin Peaks • Veronica Mars • Will and Grace • Xena: Warrior Princess
• ISBN-10: 0-8156-5447-2 / 0815654472
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-5447-6 / 9780815654476