Exploring Seriality on Screen

Audiovisual Narratives in Film and Television
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-49148-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 596 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

This collective book analyzes seriality as a major phenomenon increasingly connecting audiovisual narratives (cinematic films and television series) in the 20th and 21st centuries.

The book historicizes and contextualizes the notion of seriality, combining narratological, aesthetic, industrial, philosophical, and political perspectives, showing how seriality as a paradigm informs media convergence and resides at the core of cinema and television history. By associating theoretical considerations and close readings of specific works, as well as diachronic and synchronic approaches, this volume offers a complex panorama of issues related to seriality including audience engagement, intertextuality and transmediality, cultural legitimacy, authorship, and medium specificity in remakes, adaptations, sequels, and reboots.

Written by a team of international scholars, this book highlights a diversity of methodologies that will be of interest to scholars and doctoral students across disciplinary areas such as media studies, film studies, literature, aesthetics, and cultural studies. It will also interest students attending classes on serial audiovisual narratives and will appeal to fans of the series it addresses, such as Fargo, Twin Peaks, The Hunger Games, Bates Motel, and Sherlock.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hudelet, Ariane

Crémieux, Anne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Cinematic, Televisual or Post-Serialities

Ariane Hudelet and Anne Crémieux

Part 1: Serial Specifities

1. Opening Gambits: Cross-Media Self-Reflexivity and Audience Engagement in Serial Cinema, 1936-2008

Felix Brinker and Ilka Brasch

2. Ensemble Storytelling: Dramatic Television Seriality, the Melodramatic Mode, and Emotions

E. Deidre Pribram

3. The Cinematic-Televisual: Rethinking Medium Specificity in Television’s New Golden Age

C.E. Harris

Part 2: Marketing Seriality

4. A Forgotten Episode in the History of Hollywood Cinema, Television and Seriality: The Case of the Mirisch Company

Paul Kerr

5. Diversions in the Hunger Games Film Series: The Fragmented Narrative of Hijacked Images

Chloé Monasterolo

6. Raising Caine: Hollywood Remakes of Michael Caine's Cockney Cycle

Agnieszka Rasmus

Part 3: Seriality and the Cinematic/Televisual Convergence

7. The (Re)Making of a Serial Killer: Replaying, “Preplaying” and Rewriting Hitchcock’s Psycho in the Series Bates Motel

Dennis Tredy

8. Fargo (FX, 2014-) and Cinema: “Just Like in the Movie”?

Sylvaine Bataille

9. Screening Dreams: Twin Peaks, from the Series to the Film, back again and beyond

Sarah Hatchuel

Part 4: Meta-Serialities

10. In-between Still and Moving Pictures: Series and Seriality in Stephen Poliakoff’s Serial Drama Shooting the Past (1999)

Nicole Cloarec

11. “The Abominable Bride” (Douglas Mackinnon, 2016): Sherlock and Seriality

Christophe Gelly

12. Subject Positions and Seriality in The Good Wife

Samuel Chambers