Meta Television: A History of US Popular Television’s Self-Awareness

This book explores the ways in which the current metatextual turn, in both the usual genres in which it appears and its movement into drama and sitcom, represents the next turn in television’s inherent self-awareness.

Erin Giannini, PhD, is an independent scholar, and author of Supernatural: A History of Television’s Unearthly Road Trip and The Good Place, as well as co-editor of the book series B-TV: Television Under the Critical Radar for Bloomsbury.