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Figures of time : affect and the television of preemption

Title
Figures of time : affect and the television of preemption / Toni Pape.
Author
Pape, Toni, 1983-
Publication
  • Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
  • ©2019

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Description
218 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Summary
Many contemporary television series from 'Modern Family' to 'How to Get Away with Murder' open an episode or season with a conflict and then go back in time to show how that conflict came to be. In 'Figures of Time' Toni Pape examines these narratives, showing how these leaps in time create aesthetic experiences of time that attune their audiences to the political doctrine of preemption-a logic that justifies preemptive action to nullify a perceived future threat. Examining questions of temporality in 'Life on Mars', the political ramifications of living under the auspices of a catastrophic future in 'FlashForward', and how 'Damages' disrupts the logic of preemption, Pape shows how television helps shift political culture away from a model of rational deliberation and representation toward a politics of preemption and conformity. Exposing the mechanisms through which television supports a fear-based politics, Pape contends, will allow for the rechanneling of television's affective force into building a more productive and positive politics.
Series Statement
Thought in the act
Uniform Title
Thought in the act.
Subject
  • Television programs > Political aspects > United States
  • Television programs > Social aspects > United States
  • Television broadcasting > United States > Influence
  • Time on television
  • Television programs > Plots, themes, etc
  • Future, The, in popular culture
  • Political culture > United States
  • Political culture
  • Television broadcasting > Influence
  • Television programs > Social aspects
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-213) and index.
Contents
The serial machine : toward figures of time -- Three representations and a figural : Bergsonian variations on metric time, the virtual, and creative becoming -- Loop into line : the moral command of preemption -- Damages as procedural television.
Call Number
MWGT 19-3407
ISBN
  • 9781478003731
  • 1478003731
  • 9781478004035
  • 1478004037
LCCN
2018040995
OCLC
1037808806
Author
Pape, Toni, 1983- author.
Title
Figures of time : affect and the television of preemption / Toni Pape.
Publisher
Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Thought in the act
Thought in the act.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-213) and index.
Other Form:
Online version: Pape, Toni, 1983- author. Figures of time Durham : Duke University Press, 2019 9781478004653 (DLC) 2018055093
Research Call Number
MWGT 19-3407
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