Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and the End of Leisure

by Dennis Broe

Book Overview

Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and the End of Leisure describes and details serial television and "binge watching," the exceedingly popular form of contemporary television viewing that has come to dominance over the past decade. Author Dennis Broe looks at this practice of media consumption by suggesting that the history of seriality itself is a continual battleground between a more unified version of truth-telling and a more fractured form of diversion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814345263
• ISBN13: 9780814345269
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"