Back in 2009, when I interviewed Middlebury prof Jason Mittell for a Seven Days cover story, I asked him about his favorite new TV shows. Mittell, a professor of Film & Media Culture and American ...

It's been two years since HBO aired the final episode of The Wire. Critics praised the TV show for its realistic portrayal of drug culture and its far-reaching influence. But now a handful of colleges ...

Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling by Jason Mittell, New York University Press, 416 pages. $27. Pop quiz: Why was the ending of “The Sopranos” controversial? Who said, “I ...

Jason Mittell had other things to do last month when ABC aired a two-hour debut of the drama “Red Widow,” so he set his digital video recorder to capture it. Then the Middlebury College professor and ...

I have long been interested in assigning alternatives to the standard essay, and so I read Janine Utell’s recent guest-post here on teaching with video essays with great interest. I’ve long admired ...

Former "Celebrity Apprentice" host Donald Trump is trashing successor Arnold Schwarzenegger — and billing himself as the true "ratings machine" — in a pair of scathing tweets. Subscribe to read this ...

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Jason Mittell had other things to do last month when ABC aired a two-hour debut of the drama "Red Widow," so he set his digital video recorder to capture it. Then the Middlebury College professor and ...

FILE - This undated file photo provided by ABC shows Anthony Edwards in a scene from "Zero Hour." Edwards plays Hank Galliston, a magazine publisher who descends into an historical mystery after his ...