Roseanne
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Abstract: For decades, media scholars have theorized television programming not just as individual shows but as a flow, a carefully curated sequence of shows mingling with commercials, bumpers, teasers, hashtags, promos, scheduling, and so forth, any part of which might affect how we understand what we are watching. Using one episode of Roseanne that played on multiple different channels over the course of two decades as his case study, Taylor Cole Miller demonstrates one way of watching TV critically—dissecting the whole to grapple with the flow of its parts.
This essay may be found on page 287 of the printed volume.