50. The Operational Aesthetic - Jason Mittell

Jason Mittell is Professor of Film & Media Culture at Middlebury College and is the author of some of the most read and cited books in TV studies.

Genre and Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture (Routledge, 2004)

Television and American Culture (Oxford University Press, 2010)

Complex Television: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling (NYU Press, 2015)

Narrative Theory and ADAPTATION (Bloomsbury, 2017) https://

Jason is also co-editor of How to Watch Television (NYU Press, 2013; second edition, 2020).

He maintains the blog Just TV.

Faculty page: https://www.middlebury.edu/college/people/jason-mittell

Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Mittell

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