Time, Technology and Narrative Form in Contemporary US Television Drama
Pause, Rewind, Record
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Beschreibung
This book examines how television has been transformed over the past twenty years by the introduction of new viewing technologies including DVDs, DVRs and streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime. It shows that these platforms have profoundly altered the ways we access and watch television, enabling viewers to pause, rewind, record and archive the once irreversible flow of broadcast TV. JP Kelly argues that changes in the technological landscape of television has encouraged the production of narrative forms that both explore and embody new industrial temporalities. Focusing on US television but also considering the role of TV within a global marketplace, the author identifies three distinct narrative temporalities: “acceleration” (24; Prison Break), “complexity” (Lost; FlashForward), and “retrospection” (Mad Men). Through industrial-textual analysis of television shows, this cross-disciplinary study locates these na
rrative temporalities in their socio-cultural contexts and examines connections between production, distribution, and narrative form in the contemporary television industry.Offers a unique and detailed account of new narrative temporalities in television drama by adopting a model of “industrial poetics”
Argues that the emergence of new narrative temporalities means that TV drama should be approached through the lens of narrative time
Examines a wide range of narrative temporalities and key texts, including real-time (24), acceleration (Prison Break), non-linear time (Lost), prolepsis (FlashForward), and slowness and retrospection (Mad Men, Rubicon)
Situates US television programmes in a transnational context, and examines contemporary narrative form and the temporal regimes of an increasingly global industry
Offers a unique and detailed account of new narrative temporalities in television drama by adopting a model of “industrial poetics” Argues that the emergence of new narrative temporalities means that TV drama should be approached through the lens of narrative time Examines a wide range of narrative temporalities and key texts, including real-time (24), acceleration (Prison Break), non-linear time (Lost), prolepsis (FlashForward), and slowness and retrospection (Mad Men, Rubicon) Situates US television programmes in a transnational context, and examines contemporary narrative form and the temporal regimes of an increasingly global industry Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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JP Kelly
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