Time, Technology and Narrative Form in Contemporary US Television Drama
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Time, Technology and Narrative Form in Contemporary US Television Drama

Pause, Rewind, Record

  1. 282 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Time, Technology and Narrative Form in Contemporary US Television Drama

Pause, Rewind, Record

About this book

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 narrative temporalities in their socio-cultural contexts and examines connections between production, distribution, and narrative form in the contemporary television industry.

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Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9783319631172
eBook ISBN
9783319631189
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. Chapter 1 Introduction
  5. Part I POWER ON
  6. Chapter 2 A (Very) Brief History of Time: From Analogue to Digital
  7. Chapter 3 The Temporal Regimes of TVIII: From Broadcasting to Streaming
  8. Part II ACCELERATION
  9. Chapter 4 In the ‘Perpetual Now’: Split-Screens, Simultaneity and Seriality
  10. Chapter 5 A Stretch of Time: Extended Distribution and Narrative Accumulation
  11. Part III COMPLEXITY
  12. Chapter 6 Time Shifting in TVIII: The Industrial, Textual and Paratextual Complexities of Prime Time Drama
  13. Chapter 7 ‘Remembering What Will Be’: Prolepsis, Pre-sales, and Premediation in TVIII
  14. Part IV RETROSPECTION
  15. Chapter 8 Deja View: Media, Memory and Marketing in TVIII
  16. Chapter 9 Conclusion: ‘‘Previously on …’’—Recapping the Narrative and Distributive Temporalities of TVIII
  17. Index

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