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 [...]

2 Small Pieces

Just a brief note today. In Media Res has two posts about anime and manga this week. The first is from me and deals with posthumanism and the mecha genre in Neon Genesis Evangelion. The second is from Casey Brienza and looks at how the size of manga tankōbon published here in the U.S. should [...]