Jason Mittell

Jason Mittell
Born1970
Boston, U.S.[1]
Occupation(s)scholar and professor
Known forComplex TV
Academic background
Alma materB.A., Oberlin College; M.A. and PhD. University of Wisconsin–Madison
Academic work
Disciplinetelevision studies and digital humanities
InstitutionsGeorgia State University, Middlebury College
Websitehttps://justtv.wordpress.com/

Jason Mittell (born 1970)[citation needed] is a professor of American studies and film and media culture at Middlebury College whose research interests include the history of television, media, culture, new media, and digital humanities. He is author of four books, Genre and Television (2004),[2] Television and American Culture (2009),[3] Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling (NYU Press, 2015), and Narrative Theory and Adaptation (Bloomsbury, 2017).[4] He also co-edited How To Watch Television (NYU Press, 2013 and 2020)[5] and co-authored The Videographic Essay: Practice and Pedagogy.[6] His digital-humanities activities focus primarily on videographic media criticism and, in 2015, he co-founded the first "Scholarship in Sound & Image" workshop, supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.[7][8] Moreover, he is journal manager and co-editor of [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Studies, published by the Open Library of Humanities and supported by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.

  1. ^ "Jason Mittell - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen".
  2. ^ Mittell, Jason (2004). Genre and Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture. Routledge. pp. 238. ISBN 978-0-415-96903-1. Retrieved 2009-05-05.
  3. ^ Mittell, Jason (February 2009). Television and American Culture. Oxford University Press. p. 320. ISBN 978-0-19-530667-5. Retrieved 2009-05-05.
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  5. ^ Thompson, Ethan; Mittell, Jason, eds. (2020). How to Watch Television (Second ed.). New York: New York University Press. ISBN 978-1-4798-9063-7.
  6. ^ "The Videographic Essay". The Videographic Essay: Practice and Pedagogy. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  7. ^ "Scholarship in Sound & Image". The National Endowment for the Humanities. 2017-12-01. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  8. ^ "Scholarship in Sound & Image". Middlebury College. Retrieved 2024-06-03.