Research Catalog

Title

Time in television narrative : exploring temporality in twenty-first century programming / edited by Melissa Ames.

Publication

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

Ames, Melissa, 1978-

Description

xi, 324 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Television programs > United States
• Time on television

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: television studies in the twenty-first century -- Promoting the future of experimental tv: the industry changes and technological advancements that paved the way to "new" television ventures. Television's paradigm (time)shift: production and consumption practices in the post-network era / Todd M. Sodano -- "A stretch of time": extended distribution and narrative accumulation in Prison break / J. P. Kelly -- "It's not unknown": the loose- and dead-end afterlives of Battlestar Galactica and Lost / Jordan Lavender-Smith -- Zero-degree seriality: television narrative in the post-network era / Norman M. Gendelman -- "Play it again, Sam -- and Dean": temporality and meta-textuality in Supernatural / Michael Fuchs -- Historicizing the moment: how the cultural climate impacts. Temporal manipulation on the small screen. Temporality and trauma in American sci-fi television / Aris Mousoutzanis -- The fear of the future and the pain of the past: the quest to cheat time in Heroes, FlashForward, and Fringe / Melissa Ames -- Lost in our middle hour: faith, fate, and redemption post-9/11 / Sarah Himsel Burcon -- "New beginnings only lead to painful ends": "undeading" and fear of consequences in Pushing daisies / Kasey Butcher -- The functions of time: analyzing the effects of nonnormative narrative structure(s). "Did you get pears?": temporality and temps mortality in The wire, Mad men, and Arrested development / Gry C. Rustad and Timotheus Vermeulen -- Temporalities on collision course: time, knowledge, and temporal critique in Damages / Toni Pape -- Freaks of time: reevaluating memory and identity through Daniel Knauf's Carnivale / Frida Beckman -- The discourse of medium: time as a narrative device / Kristi McDuffie -- Moving beyond the televisual restraints of the past: reimagining genres and formats. Making sense of the future: narrative destabilization in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse / Casey J. McCormick -- Why 30 Rock rocks and The Office needs some work: the role of time/space in contemporary TV sitcoms / Colin Irvine -- Change the structure, change the ttory: How I met your mother and the reformulation of the television romance / Molly Brost -- Like sands through the half-hourglass: Nurse Jackie and temporal disruption / Janani Subramanian -- The television musical: Glee's new directions / Jack Harrison -- Playing outside of the box: the role time plays in fan fiction, online communities, and audience studies. "Nothing happens unless first a dream": TV fandom. Narrative structure, and the alternate universes of bones / Melanie Cattrell -- Two days before the day after tomorrow: time, temporality, and fandom in South Park / Jason W. Buel -- Lost in time?: Lost fan engagement with temporal play / Lucy Bennett.

Call Number

MWGT 12-6320

ISBN

• 9781617032936 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 161703293X (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2011045389

OCLC

759909839

Title

Time in television narrative : exploring temporality in twenty-first century programming / edited by Melissa Ames.

Imprint

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2012.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Ames, Melissa, 1978-

Research Call Number

MWGT 12-6320