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Pulp Genre Categories Slideshow


  • “HBO’s Flexible Gold” by Michael Szalay in Representations (Spring 2014)
  • “Puzzles of Collective Intention” on The American Vandal Podcast (September 2022)
  • “Complexity in Context” by Jason Mittell in Complex TV (NYU, 2015)
  • “Melodrama & Narrative Stagnation in Quality TV” by Michael Szalay in Theory & Event (April 2019)
  • “How Sopranos Changed TV” by Alan Sepinwall in Rolling Stone (January, 2024)
  • “Anthony & Carmela Get Vaccinated” by Peter Coviello in Los Angeles Review of Books (April 2021)
  • “The Sopranos Revival” on The American Vandal Podcast (September 2022)
  • “The Twilight of Prestige Television” by Michael Schulman in The New Yorker (November 2023)
  • “What is U.S. Television Now?” by Amanda Lotz (AAAPSS, September 2009)
  • “Previously On” in Difficult Men by Brett Martin (2013)
  • “The Family Racket” by Deborah Jaramillo in Journal of Communication Inquiry (January 2002)
  • “How TV Became Respectable Without Getting Better” by Matthew Christman in Current Affairs (May 2017)
  • “Television” in Everything Bad Is Good For You by Steven Johnson (2005)
  • “Buffy The Vampire Slayer to #MeToo: Emily Nussbaum Talks Peak TV with Wesley Morris” at 92nd St. Y (September 9, 2019)

U.S. Media Conglomeration Chart (2020)

Game of Thrones Viewership (Nielsen)


Sopranos Viewership (Nielsen)

“The Very Last Piece of TV Monoculture” (Ringer, 7.12.2017)

Game of Thrones Episode Rankings (Ringer)

Course Information

What:  HBO, From Pulp To Prestige

When: Term III, 10:10 AM – 12:10 PM

Where: Elmira College

Instructor: Dr. Seybold

Email: mseybold at elmira dot edu

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