Television Finales: From Howdy Doody to Girls (Television and Popular Culture)
معرفی کتاب «Television Finales: From Howdy Doody to Girls (Television and Popular Culture)» نوشتهٔ Douglas Snauffer، Amanda Potter، Ensley F. Guffey، Barbara Villez، K. Dale Koontz، Elizabeth L. Rambo، Erika Johnson-Lewis، Keith Brand، Jeff Thompson، Renee Middlemost، David Hinckley، Stephen Spignesi، Alice Leppert، Katheryn Wright، Eric Gould، Ron Wilson، Shelley Cobb، Clinton Bryant، Jeffrey Bussolini، Dean DeFino، Stan Beeler، Bill Yousman، Michele Byers، Zeke Jarvis، Kim Akass، Gary R. Edgerton، Lynne Hibberd، Lynnette Porter، Adam Ochonicky، Gary Gravely، Paul Wright، Lorna Jewett، Amy M. Damico، Karen Hellekson، Robert J. Thompson، Mark Dawidziak، Martha P. Nochimson، Sue Turnbull، Joanne Morreale، Lincoln Geraghty، David Bianculli، Brett Mills، Nikki Stafford، Jason P. Vest، Hannah Hamad، Trisha Dunleavy، Stacey Abbott، Cynthia Burkhead، Sam Ford، Lori Bindig، Deborah Jermyn، Jonathan Nichols-Pethick، David Scott Diffrient، Bill Brioux، Dana A. Heller، Asokan Nirmalarajah، Mitchell E. Shapiro، Joseph S. Walker، Douglas L. Howard، Stephanie Graves، Michael Donovan، J. Jeremy Wisnewski و Teresa Forde، منتشرشده توسط نشر TEXAS TECH UNIV; Syrcause University Press; Syracuse University Press در سال 2018. این کتاب در 20 صفحه، فرمت epub، زبان انگلیسی ارائه شده است.
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. "TV finales fascinate us because they bring universes to an end--in the case of long-running shows, very complicated universes--exposing in the process our cultural obsessions, our 'reading' practices, our imagined identities, our fascination with television. This volume brings together the work of 63 scholars in 71 essays, each essay discussing a different television finale"-- Provided by publisher "TV finales fascinate us because they bring universes to an end ... in the case of long-running shows, very complicated universes ... exposing in the process our cultural obsessions, our 'reading' practices, our imagined identities, our fascination with television. This volume brings together the work of 63 scholars in 71 essays, each essay discussing a different television finale" ..