_A Companion to Television_ is a magisterial collection of 31 original essays that charter the field of television studies over the past century * Explores a diverse range of topics and theories that have led to television’s current incarnation, and predict its likely future * Covers technology and aesthetics, television’s relationship to the state, televisual commerce; texts, representation, genre, internationalism, and audience reception and effects * Essays are by an international group of first-rate scholars For information, news, and content from Blackwell's reference publishing program please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/reference/