Television Entertainment

Television Entertainment offers a thematically based overview, balancing an interest in art, aesthetics and audiences with the power, politics and production of television, that includes examples from recent and current television, including Lost, reality television, The Sopranos, The Simpsons, political satire, Grey's Anatomy, The West Wing, soaps, and 24.

Television entertainment rules supreme, one of the world's most important disseminators of information, ideas, and amusement. But is television entertainment art? Why do so many lo