Television after TV

“[T]his collection is broad-ranging and thought-provoking and offers much of value to students and scholars of television.” - Mike Chopra-Gant , Journal of American Studies

“Spigel and Olsson have produced a timely intervention into television scholarship and a solid contribution that would benefit current and budding scholars. The range of subjects included in Television after TV positions this tome as a good resource for current scholars who will want to keep this compendium of recent, relevant scholarship close at hand.” - Nikki Porter , Cultural Studies

"[D]etailed and coherent. . . . [A] useful summary of the scope of contemporary television studies." - Craig Hight , Media International Australia

"There's a good deal of thoughtful material here, right on the cutting edge of the changes going on in broadcast television." - Chris Sterling , Communication Booknotes Quarterly

"This collection of essays comes at a critical time, when we are looking at not just a change in media, but a change in form, practice and consequence." - Kathleen Quillian , Leonardo Reviews

“A terrific collection of essays by the top scholars in the field, Television after TV revitalizes television studies by exploring the interplay between television and new media and between corporate consolidation and new forms of programming. Not willing to rest on old paradigms or theories, the authors propose new analytical frameworks for making sense of television in the age of the Internet and beyond." - Susan J. Douglas, coauthor of The Mommy Myth

“Lynn Spigel and Jan Olsson have assembled a stellar lineup of television scholars whose unique and differentiated approaches to television studies’ future also provide a fascinating overview of where we are and how we got here. These essays will set the terms for how we look at television in the twenty-first century.” - Michele Hilmes, editor of The Television History Book