Janet Wasko is the Philip H. Knight chair for Communication Research at the University of Oregon and President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research. She is the author of How Hollywood Works and Hollywood in the Information Age. Eileen R. Meehan is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Radio, Television, and Digital Media at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Among her publications are studies of the Nielsen ratings and television's commodity audience, corporate profiles of global media conglomerates, and analyses of media artifacts.

• Notes on Contributors ixList of Tables and Figures xviiPart I Introduction 1Introduction 3Janet Wasko and Eileen R. MeehanPart II Theoretical Overview 151 Critical Perspectives on Television from the Frankfurt School to the Politics of Representation 17Doug KellnerPart III History 392 Our TV Heritage: Tracing the Logics of the Television Archive 41Lynn Spigel3 Locating the Televisual in Golden Age Television 63Caren J. Deming and Deborah V. Tudor4 The Past is Now Present Onscreen: Television, History, and Collective Memory 79Gary R. EdgertonPart IV Industry 1055 Broadcasting in the Age of Netflix: When the Market is Master 107Sylvia Harvey6 The Audiovisual Industry and the Structural Factors of the Television Crisis 129Giuseppe Richeri7 Netflix, Inc. and Online Television 145Jane Shattuc8 Television Advertising: Texts, Political Economy, and Ideology 165Matthew P. McAllister and Lars Stoltzfus‐Brown9 Contested Connections: Public Broadcasting and Culture in Common 183Graham MurdockPart V Genres 19910 Reality TV: Performances and Audiences 201Annette Hill11 Revisiting the Trade in Television News 221Andrew Calabrese and Christopher C. Barnes12 Twitter Watchers: The Care and Feeding of Cable News Flow in the Age of Trump 247Deborah L. Jaramillo13 Television and Sports 265Michael R. Real and William M. KunzPart VI Programs 28514 30 Rock and the Satirical Representation of the Television Industry 287Lauren Bratslavsky15 Nothing New Under the Sun: The Reimplementation of 80s Sitcom Tropes in NBC’s This is Us 307Novotny LawrencePart VII Audiences 32516 Children and Television: A Special Audience for a Special Medium 327Dafna Lemish17 Watching Television: A Political Economic Approach 345Eileen R. Meehan18 The Female Television Audience Updated: Women’s Television Culture in the Age of New Media 361Andrea Press and Sarah R. Johnson19 Television as a Moving Aesthetic: In Search of the Ultimate Aesthetic – The Self 379Julianne H. NewtonPart VIII International Case Studies 40320 Television in Latin America: Stages of Transition 405John Sinclair21 Drama, Audiences, and Authenticity: Television Programming and Audiences in Post‐Apartheid South Africa 423Ruth Teer‐Tomaselli22 Television in the Arab Region: History, Structure, and Transformations 439Joe F. Khalil23 Sixty Years of Chinese Television: History, Political Economy, and Ideology in a Conflicted Global Order 459Yuezhi Zhao and Zhenzhi GuoIndex 477

Janet Wasko is the Philip H. Knight chair for Communication Research at the University of Oregon and President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research. She is the author of How Hollywood Works and Hollywood in the Information Age. Eileen R. Meehan is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Radio, Television, and Digital Media at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Among her publications are studies of the Nielsen ratings and television's commodity audience, corporate profiles of global media conglomerates, and analyses of media artifacts.

• Notes on Contributors ixList of Tables and Figures xviiPart I Introduction 1Introduction 3Janet Wasko and Eileen R. MeehanPart II Theoretical Overview 151 Critical Perspectives on Television from the Frankfurt School to the Politics of Representation 17Doug KellnerPart III History 392 Our TV Heritage: Tracing the Logics of the Television Archive 41Lynn Spigel3 Locating the Televisual in Golden Age Television 63Caren J. Deming and Deborah V. Tudor4 The Past is Now Present Onscreen: Television, History, and Collective Memory 79Gary R. EdgertonPart IV Industry 1055 Broadcasting in the Age of Netflix: When the Market is Master 107Sylvia Harvey6 The Audiovisual Industry and the Structural Factors of the Television Crisis 129Giuseppe Richeri7 Netflix, Inc. and Online Television 145Jane Shattuc8 Television Advertising: Texts, Political Economy, and Ideology 165Matthew P. McAllister and Lars Stoltzfus‐Brown9 Contested Connections: Public Broadcasting and Culture in Common 183Graham MurdockPart V Genres 19910 Reality TV: Performances and Audiences 201Annette Hill11 Revisiting the Trade in Television News 221Andrew Calabrese and Christopher C. Barnes12 Twitter Watchers: The Care and Feeding of Cable News Flow in the Age of Trump 247Deborah L. Jaramillo13 Television and Sports 265Michael R. Real and William M. KunzPart VI Programs 28514 30 Rock and the Satirical Representation of the Television Industry 287Lauren Bratslavsky15 Nothing New Under the Sun: The Reimplementation of 80s Sitcom Tropes in NBC’s This is Us 307Novotny LawrencePart VII Audiences 32516 Children and Television: A Special Audience for a Special Medium 327Dafna Lemish17 Watching Television: A Political Economic Approach 345Eileen R. Meehan18 The Female Television Audience Updated: Women’s Television Culture in the Age of New Media 361Andrea Press and Sarah R. Johnson19 Television as a Moving Aesthetic: In Search of the Ultimate Aesthetic – The Self 379Julianne H. NewtonPart VIII International Case Studies 40320 Television in Latin America: Stages of Transition 405John Sinclair21 Drama, Audiences, and Authenticity: Television Programming and Audiences in Post‐Apartheid South Africa 423Ruth Teer‐Tomaselli22 Television in the Arab Region: History, Structure, and Transformations 439Joe F. Khalil23 Sixty Years of Chinese Television: History, Political Economy, and Ideology in a Conflicted Global Order 459Yuezhi Zhao and Zhenzhi GuoIndex 477

Janet Wasko is the Philip H. Knight chair for Communication Research at the University of Oregon and President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research. She is the author of How Hollywood Works and Hollywood in the Information Age. Eileen R. Meehan is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Radio, Television, and Digital Media at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Among her publications are studies of the Nielsen ratings and television's commodity audience, corporate profiles of global media conglomerates, and analyses of media artifacts.

• Notes on Contributors ixList of Tables and Figures xviiPart I Introduction 1Introduction 3Janet Wasko and Eileen R. MeehanPart II Theoretical Overview 151 Critical Perspectives on Television from the Frankfurt School to the Politics of Representation 17Doug KellnerPart III History 392 Our TV Heritage: Tracing the Logics of the Television Archive 41Lynn Spigel3 Locating the Televisual in Golden Age Television 63Caren J. Deming and Deborah V. Tudor4 The Past is Now Present Onscreen: Television, History, and Collective Memory 79Gary R. EdgertonPart IV Industry 1055 Broadcasting in the Age of Netflix: When the Market is Master 107Sylvia Harvey6 The Audiovisual Industry and the Structural Factors of the Television Crisis 129Giuseppe Richeri7 Netflix, Inc. and Online Television 145Jane Shattuc8 Television Advertising: Texts, Political Economy, and Ideology 165Matthew P. McAllister and Lars Stoltzfus‐Brown9 Contested Connections: Public Broadcasting and Culture in Common 183Graham MurdockPart V Genres 19910 Reality TV: Performances and Audiences 201Annette Hill11 Revisiting the Trade in Television News 221Andrew Calabrese and Christopher C. Barnes12 Twitter Watchers: The Care and Feeding of Cable News Flow in the Age of Trump 247Deborah L. Jaramillo13 Television and Sports 265Michael R. Real and William M. KunzPart VI Programs 28514 30 Rock and the Satirical Representation of the Television Industry 287Lauren Bratslavsky15 Nothing New Under the Sun: The Reimplementation of 80s Sitcom Tropes in NBC’s This is Us 307Novotny LawrencePart VII Audiences 32516 Children and Television: A Special Audience for a Special Medium 327Dafna Lemish17 Watching Television: A Political Economic Approach 345Eileen R. Meehan18 The Female Television Audience Updated: Women’s Television Culture in the Age of New Media 361Andrea Press and Sarah R. Johnson19 Television as a Moving Aesthetic: In Search of the Ultimate Aesthetic – The Self 379Julianne H. NewtonPart VIII International Case Studies 40320 Television in Latin America: Stages of Transition 405John Sinclair21 Drama, Audiences, and Authenticity: Television Programming and Audiences in Post‐Apartheid South Africa 423Ruth Teer‐Tomaselli22 Television in the Arab Region: History, Structure, and Transformations 439Joe F. Khalil23 Sixty Years of Chinese Television: History, Political Economy, and Ideology in a Conflicted Global Order 459Yuezhi Zhao and Zhenzhi GuoIndex 477