About
Jason Mittell is Associate Professor of American Studies and Film & Media Culture at Middlebury College. My book, Genre and Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture, was released in 2004. I am currently working on a textbook entitled Television and American Culture, and a book on narrative complexity in contemporary American television.
, was released in 2004. I am currently working on a textbook entitled Television and American Culture, and a book on narrative complexity in contemporary American television.My research interests include television history and criticism, media and cultural history, genre theory, narratology, animation and children’s media, cultural historiography, and new media studies & technological convergence. I write informally on this blog, and semi-formally on Flow - please visit & comment! And there’s a nice recap of a talk I gave about TV storytelling at MIT from October 2005 with Steven Johnson.
More information is available at my homepage or contact me via at jmittell at middlebury dot edu.
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