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The Second Edition of the Encyclopedia of Television builds on the award-winning First Edition. That work, widely recognized and cited as the foremost reference work designed for the study of television, presents almost 1,000 essays on people, programmes and topics related to the medium. Focused on both the history and current state of television, the Encyclopedia also looks to the future, exploring significant changes that have occurred in the economic, technological, and regulatory contexts in which television is produced, transmitted and experienced. The Second Edition appears in four illustrated volumes. For nearly fifty years television has been at the centre of world culture. The Encyclopedia of Television, 2nd Edition is the first major reference work to provide description, history, analysis and information on more than 1100 subjects related to television in its international context. The focus of the materials is on television in the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia; twenty essays offer historical and descriptive discussions of television in other countries and regions around the world.
More than 300 critics and scholars of television provide illustrated essays covering programs, people and topics. A ABBOTT, Gina. ABRAM, Daniel. University of Texas at Austin. ABRAMSON, Bram. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ACLAND, Charles. Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. ALDRIDGE, Henry B. Eas

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