After occupying a central space in American living rooms for the past fifty years, is television, as we've known it, dead? This work examines television at the

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In his seminal book "Television's Second Golden Age", Robert Thompson described quality TV as 'best defined by what it is not': 'it is not "regular" TV'. Audaci

The collision of new technologies, changing business strategies, and innovative storytelling that produced a new golden age of TV. Cable television channels wer

The emergence of "male-centered serials" such as The Shield, Rescue Me, and Sons Of Anarchy and the challenges these characters face in negotiating modern mascu