Is Television Studies History?
The article discusses television studies and the role of television in British cinema. The author states that during British “New Wave” films of the 1960s, television is portrayed in a negative light and associated with commercialism, consumerism, and the decay of family life. The author states that television studies in the twenty-first century focuses on its shifting identity and inferiority to digital media. The article also discusses distinctive phases in the study of television in the anglophone academy to help map out the history of the study.
