While Barbara Selznick adeptly interrogates the meanings of the dreams that Great Recession TV offered its viewers, she equally challenges us to ask how those dreams emerged from the economies in which TV is produced and distributed. TVs American Dream reveals how industrial hopes and aspirations for profitable futures can determine what dreams become available to whom. * Derek Johnson, Professor and Chair of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, and author of Transgenerational Media Industries: Adults, Children, and the Reproduction of Culture (2019) * A wide-ranging, insightful, and accessible study of post-recession television, TVs American Dream meticulously probes narrative, character, genre, audience, and industry to ascertain how the medium adapted to the fallout of an economy gone sour. Selznick maps the elusiveness of the American Dream onto the shifting terrains of television and demonstrates that while the dream can be contested, TV cannot tolerate its complete undoing. * Deborah Jaramillo, Associate Professor, Department of Film and Television, Boston University, USA *
