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Storytelling in Film and Television

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Description for Storytelling in Film and Television Paperback. The secret of television's success may well lie in the remarkable narrative complexities underlying its seeming simplicity, complexities Kristin Thompson unmasks in this analysis of the narrative workings of television and film. Num Pages: 192 pages, 4 halftones, 5 tables. BIC Classification: APF; APT; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 207 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 246.

Derided as simple, dismissed as inferior to film, famously characterized as a vast wasteland, television nonetheless exerts an undeniable, apparently inescapable power in our culture. The secret of television's success may well lie in the remarkable narrative complexities underlying its seeming simplicity, complexities Kristin Thompson unmasks in this engaging analysis of the narrative workings of television and film.

After first looking at the narrative techniques the two media share, Thompson focuses on the specific challenges that series television presents and the tactics writers have devised to meet them--tactics that sustain interest and maintain sense across multiple plots and subplots and in spite of frequent interruptions as well as weeklong and seasonal breaks. Beyond adapting the techniques of film, Thompson argues, television has wrought its own changes in traditional narrative form. Drawing on classics of film and television, as well as recent and current series like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Sopranos, and The Simpsons, she shows how adaptations, sequels, series, and sagas have altered long-standing notions of closure and single authorship. And in a comparison of David Lynch's Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks, she asks whether there can be an "art television" comparable to the more familiar "art cinema."

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674010871
SKU
V9780674010871
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Unknown
Kristin Thompson is an honorary fellow in the Communication Arts Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Reviews for Storytelling in Film and Television
Remarkably little work (scholarly or otherwise) has been done on television. These four essays provide what may be the most cogent and systematic study of the subject currently available. Thompson is an extremely solid writer with a keen intellect and exceptional analytical skills, and all of these qualities are in evidence here. Simply stated, there is at present no book quite like this one, despite the pressing need for such a book.
Thomas Schatz, Professor of Radio, Television & Film, University of Texas at Austin I quite enjoyed reading this book. What I like most about it is its interdisciplinary approach. It shows the insights that an intellectually mature media scholar can have when she crosses disciplinary boundaries
applying analytical principles of one medium to another. I feel strongly that this sort of work should be encouraged.
Jeremy Butler, Professor of Telecommunications and Film, University of Alabama

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