Television Finales - From Howdy Doody to Girls

Given the importance of finales to television viewers and critics alike, Howard and Bianculli along with the other contributors explore endings and what they mean to the audience, both in terms of their sense of narrative and as episodes that epitomize an entire show.

About the author

Douglas L. Howard is academic chair of the English Department on the Ammerman Campus at Suffolk County Community College. He is the editor of Dexter: Investigating Cutting Edge Television and a coeditor of The Essential Sopranos Reader.

David Bianculli has been a TV critic since 1975, currently runs the website TVWorthWatching.com, and serves as guest host for NPR's Fresh Air. He is the author of The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to The Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific.

Product details

• Authors: David (EDT)/ Howard Bianculli, Douglas L. Bianculli Howard
• Assisted by: David Bianculli (Editor), Douglas L Howard (Editor), Douglas L. Howard (Editor)
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9780815611059
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-1105-9
• No. of pages: 544
• Series: Television and Popular Culture; Television and Popular Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics