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Time in Television Narrative: Exploring Temporality in Twenty-First-Century Programming
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Description for Time in Television Narrative: Exploring Temporality in Twenty-First-Century Programming
Paperback. Analyses 21st-Century American television programs that employ temporal and narrative experimentation. Drawing upon the fields of cultural studies, television scholarship, and literary studies, as well as overarching theories concerning post modernity and narratology, this book offers some critical suggestions. Editor(s): Ames, Melissa. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; APT; CBVS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 494.
This collection analyzes twenty-first-century American television programs that employ temporal and narrative experimentation. These shows play with time, slowing it down to unfold narrative through time retardation and compression. They disrupt the chronological flow of time itself, using flashbacks and insisting that viewers be able to situate themselves in both the present and the past narrative threads. Although temporal play has existed on the small screen prior to the new millennium, never before has narrative time been so freely adapted in mainstream television. The essayists offer explanations for not only the frequency of time-play in contemporary programming, but also the ... Read more
This collection analyzes twenty-first-century American television programs that employ temporal and narrative experimentation. These shows play with time, slowing it down to unfold narrative through time retardation and compression. They disrupt the chronological flow of time itself, using flashbacks and insisting that viewers be able to situate themselves in both the present and the past narrative threads. Although temporal play has existed on the small screen prior to the new millennium, never before has narrative time been so freely adapted in mainstream television. The essayists offer explanations for not only the frequency of time-play in contemporary programming, but also the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Condition
New
Number of Pages
324
Place of Publication
Jackson, United States
ISBN
9781628461732
SKU
V9781628461732
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About
Melissa Ames, Champaign, Illinois, is assistant professor of English at Eastern Illinois University. She is coeditor of Women and Language: Essays on Gendered Communication across Media.
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