Research Catalog

Title

Critical reflections on audience and narrativity : new connections, new perspectives / Valentina Marinescu, Bianca Mitu, Silvia Branea (eds.).

Publication

Stuttgart : Ibidem-Verlag, [2014]

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Additional Authors

• Marinescu, Valentina
• Mitu, Bianca, 1982-
• Branea, Silvia

Description

243 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

This book offers an interdisciplinary and multicultural approach to fiction, reality, and narrativity applied to television series from all over the world. Dissecting the almost invisible barrier between fiction and reality in TV series from various perspectives, the chapters cover a wide range of contemporary classics from the post-network age. From The X-Files and Desperate Housewives to "The Wire and Breaking Bad, the chapters sketch TV series' development from the lowest form of mass entertainment to the sophisticated vehicle of highbrow intertextuality on a global scale. Also covering many international cases from Brazil, Serbia, Romania, and Turkey and locating them in the global web of puzzle narratives, the unique contributions draw connections between the most diverse audiences and the way they receive modern storytelling in a culturally globalized world. This timely volume is a great resource for anyone interested in contemporary mass culture.

Subject

• Television programs > Plots, themes, etc
• Television series > History and criticism
• Fiction television programs > History and criticism
• Reality television programs > History and criticism

Genre/Form

• Television programs
• Émissions télévisées.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Does the cultural capital compensate for the cultural discount? Why do German students prefer US-American TV series? / Daniela Schluetz, Beate Schneider -- Awake, or the multiplication of the realities contemporary television series: narrative structures and audience perception / Mathieu Pierre -- "Three hundred channels and nothing's on": metaleptic genre-mixing in Supernatural / Michael Fuchs -- Appreciating Nietzsche in episodic drama: the highbrow intertextuality and middlebrow reception of Criminal minds / Michael Wayne -- The seed of an idea and its cognitive field: minding the gap of alternate reality in Flash forward and Fringe / Inbar Kaminsky -- Breaking narrative: narrative complexity in contemporary television / Oliver Kroener -- The walking dead and the truly monstrous ... on television / Atene Mendelyte -- Television cosmo-mythologies: the return to mythological narratives in television fiction, from The prisoner to Lost / Raquel Crisóstomo Gálvez, Enric Ros Zofío -- Breaking bad, a character-based formula / Rodrigo Mesonero -- Representing occupations in media and audience perceptions of TV series / Valentina Marinescu -- Homeland: war on terror revisited / Marc Perelló-Sobrepere -- Understanding health in Grey's Anatomy television series / Bianca Mitu -- Fiction television in Brazil: new perspectives / Lilian Fontes Moreira -- TV series Bolji z̆ivot (1987-1991): view from the future / Natasa Simeunovic Bajic -- The X-factor of singing competitions TV series / Maria Dicieanu -- TV drama as a narrative form: scenes from a gendered and a sacralized cultural sphere in Turkish society / Nuran E. Işık-- The hero's journey / María Teresa Nicolás Gavilán, Lourdes López Gutiérrez, Carmen Silvia Sánchez Arana, Tania Alejandra Benítez Sánchez.

ISBN

• 9783838206097 (pbk.)
• 9783838206806 (hd.bd.) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

880566029

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library