<I>Time on TV examines the massive aesthetic and structural changes happening across today's television programs. Time travel, flash forwards, fake memories:

From early examples such as Star Trek and Sapphire and Steel to more contemporary shows including Life on Mars and The Vampire Diaries, time has frequently been

Winner of the 2009 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award The Midwest of popular imagination is a "Heartland" characterized by

The Lichter's and Rothman have laid bare TV's social agenda. This book is insightful, fair-minded, and always interesting.--Fred Barnes, The New Republic

The Wheel of Times turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave