In the following essay, Wallace offers extended discussion of the relationship between television and the development of image fiction in American literature during the 1990s.

In the following essay, Allen applies the phenomenological theory of reader-oriented criticism to the viewing of television.

In the following essay, Poirier examines the perception that technology—specifically electronic media—poses a threat to the cultural position of literature.

In the following essay, Burns defends television against criticism that it is responsible for a decline in American cultural literacy and champions media studies as a legitimate subject of academic inquiry.

In the following essay, Reynolds centers on the BBC adaptation of C, S. Lewis's Chronicles of Íarnia in a broader examination of issues and assumptions about the translation of children's books into television.

In the following essay, Nickerson discusses ways in which Twin Peaks both embodies and subverts the conventions of detective fiction while employing characteristics of the literary gothic tradition.

In the following essay, Esslin discusses the abandonment of literary drama by American commercial and public television programmers.

In the following essay, Nodelman addresses the ways in which the enjoyment of television negatively affects the enjoyment of literature among children.

In the following essay, Helmetag examines the American television adaptation of Heinrich Böll's Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum (1974) as The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck (1984).

In the following essay, Nodelman presents a negative appraisal of Once upon a Classic, a PBS series which adapted nineteenth-century novels into television for children.