Book Review: Legitimating Television by Newman and Levine

So I found myself in an odd position while I read Legitimating Television. Like Television Studies before it, I read the book entirely on my commute back home from work. This in and of itself is not odd. People on this commute, a bus-coach service that largely serves professionals in bedroom communities around Atlanta, regularly consume media [...]

Book Review: Television Studies by Gray and Lotz

Along with Levine and Newman’s Legitimating Television, Gray and Lotz’s Television Studies, part of a Polity’s Short Introduction series, topped my To Read list enough that they were high priorities for Christmas gifts from folks this year. Thankfully, I received both. I opted for Television Studies first as both a primer for Legitimating‘s discussions and as [...]