Television Finales

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.

An invaluable resource for those studying or researching popular culture. . . .Highly recommended-- "Choice" Finales are in many cases the high points of iconic television series. This carefully compiled and well-researched compendium provides a definitive explication and assessment of finales through the half century and counting of television, and will become a classic text in the field.-- "Paul Levinson, professor of communication and media studies, Fordham University" The last word on TV endings.-- "Matt Zoller Seitz, television critic for New York Magazine" This book is about much more than television finales; it shows us how the final episode illuminates the entire series. David Bianculli's work is historically informed, showing his mastery of the subject. With contributors representing some of the leading lights in television studies and impressive contributions by new scholars as well, the approximately seventy essays span the scope of television.-- "Rhonda V. Wilcox, author of Reading Joss Whedon"