Meanings of the Medium

KATHERINE USHER HENDERSON is Professor of English and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Dominican College of San Raphael. The author of Joan Didion, she has published extensively on women's studies and contemporary writers.JOSEPH ANTHONY MAZZEO is Avalon Foundation Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author of eight books including Varieties of Interpretation, Renaissance and Revolution: The Remaking of European Thought, The Design of Life: Major Themes in Biological Thought.

• IntroductionTelevision and SocietyTelegenic Colloquies: Paradigms of Society in the TV Talk Show by Robert CluettTelevision Intimacy: Paradoxes of Trust and Romance by Judith Kegan GardinerField and Screen: Baseball and Television by Michael SeidelNot Such A Long Way, Baby: Women and Televised Myth by Harriet BlodgettTelevision Programming as ArtAriosto and Bochco: Polyphonic Plotting in Orlando Furioso, Hill Street Blues, and L.A. Law by James V. MirolloThe Good, the Bad and the Counterfeit: A Tolstoyan Theory of Television Narrative by Mary SirridgeRichard Chamberlain's Hamlet Theoharis C. TheoharisTelevision and Its CriticsTaking Television Too Seriously--and Not Seriously Enough by Barbara LeeMass Culture, Class Culture, Democracy, and Prime Time: Television Criticism and the Question of Quality, 1920-1988 by David MarcFrom Mass Man to Postmodernism: Critical Analyses of Television for the Past Half Century by James. M. O'BrienBibliographyIndex