Style matters. Television relies on style—setting, lighting, videography, editing, and so on—to set moods, hail viewers, construct meanings, build narrative

Style matters. Television relies on style—setting, lighting, videography, editing, and so on—to set moods, hail viewers, construct meanings, build narrative

Although the "decline" of network television in the face of cable programming was an institutional crisis of television history, John Caldwell's classic volume

Although Film Studies has successfully (re)turned attention to matters of style and interpretation, its sibling discipline has left the territory uncharted - un

From Archie Bunker's Barcalounger to the framed peephole on Friends,a sitcom's decor sets the tone of the nation's favourite shows - and defines the lives of it