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  • Paperback: 404 pages
  • Publisher: NYU Press (10 April 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0814769608
  • ISBN-13: 978-0814769607
  • Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 2.6 x 22.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 36,981 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"A lucid and provocative exploration of modern television, from the inside out." -Emily Nussbaum, television critic at the "New Yorker"

"Complex TV is one of the most exciting books I have ever read. Each chapter contains useful and well-defined terms to put to work in formal analysis, and every argument is backed up with lively, detailed, and entertaining readings of familiar TV texts. The result is a rich and thorough piece of scholarship that will do for television studies what David Bordwell's historical poetics has famously done for film."-Robyn Warhol, co-editor of "Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions"

A lucid and provocative exploration of modern television, from the inside out. -Emily Nussbaum, television critic at the "New Yorker""

"Complex TVis one of the most exciting books I have ever read.Each chapter contains useful and well-defined terms to put to work in formal analysis, and every argument is backed up with lively, detailed, and entertaining readings of familiar TV texts.The result is a rich and thorough piece of scholarship that will do for television studies what David Bordwell s historical poetics has famously done for film. -Robyn Warhol, co-editor of "Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions""

[ ]Mittel s compelling arguments about topics such as anti-heroes and melodrama help us see the bigger picture when it comes to the small screen. -"Seven Days ""

About the Author

Jason Mittell is a Professor of Film & Media Culture and American Studies at Middlebury College. He is the author of Genre & Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture, Television & American Culture, and co-editor of How to Watch Television (NYU Press, 2013).


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Jason Mittell always writes accessibly and lucidly about television studies, and culture and media studies in general. His book 'Television and American Culture' was a milestone in television studies, and this 'poetics' of complex TV shows such as 'The Wire', 'Lost', 'Breaking Bad' and 'Game of Thrones' is the best study of so-called 'quality TV' (a term which Mittell criticises and does not use). Mittell's book is sharply critical, and takes into account various different approaches, but he also takes his own position, which makes his writing more personal. Thankfully, he always clarifies when his own value judgements shape his argument, and takes a friendly position towards television, and its viewers. It's a book about new forms of television, about the cultural and technological changes that change the way we think about TV. It's about how we come up with value judgements, and about underappreciated gems of TV history. I really enjoyed it.
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