Television Rewired

Nochimson's book is well worth reading not only for its insights but for the dialogue and reflection it opens up among readers. ~Lost in the Movies

Television Rewired is an essential contribution to the still-crystallizing critical definition of auteur television…from the unique perspective of a critic who has engaged with the medium in profound ways. ~25 Years Later

This book details the creative process of each of the series [that developed the concept of the television auteur], based on interviews and detailed research by the author…Recommended. ~CHOICE

A lively and fascinating book...Throughout Nochimson is thoroughly consumed by the question of what constitutes television art, and what plausibly counts as a defense of its achievements; her prose is utterly compelling in its gentle unfolding of such complex and challenging questions. ~New Review of Film and Television Studies

[Nochimson provides] solid, but accessible, insights into the process of auteur television expression....After reading Television Rewired, I learned a new vocabulary for television viewing. The book is not a judgment of what is good or bad. Nochimson expanded my appreciation for television by explaining exactly what it is I am watching. ~Popular Culture Studies Journal

This book is clearly a labor of love and a polemic that deploys rhetoric, interviews, and textual evidence to hammer away at the norms of US series television as they have been developed since the 1950s as well as to promote the claims of key 'auteurs.' Its challenge to prevailing views of some contemporary US television deserves attention. ~Christine Geraghty, University of Glasgow, coeditor of The Television Studies Book

Martha Nochimson has written an excellent book about the evolution of the American television series as a serious and significant site of art in the contemporary world. She expands our understanding of it by focusing on the auteurs behind this art, amplified by the copious presence of the personal interviews she conducted. ~Martin Shuster, Goucher College, author of New Television: The Aesthetics and Politics of a Genre