Meta Television

ISBN-13: 9781032366340 / Twarda / 2024 / 184 str.

Erin Giannini

Opis

This book explores the ways in which the current metatextual turn, in both the usual genres in which it appears and its movement into drama and sitcom, represents the next turn in television’s inherent self-awareness.

Spis treści

Introduction: Exploiting TV’s TV-ness, or Isn’t Television Weird? Part 1: Facets of Meta Television 1. “Like there were only three walls, not a fourth one”: Addressing the World Outside the TV 2. “That’s fake me!”: Shows About Shows Part 2: Deep Dives: Defining Shows 3. Soap’s Parody of Soap Opera’s Dramatic Excesses 4. “Tonight, broadcasting takes a giant leap...backwards”: Moonlighting’s Comedy Noir 5. Life Isn’t a John Hughes Film: Parker Lewis Can’t Lose, Film, and Surveillance 6. Whose Story Is It?: Roseanne, Supernatural and the Writer as God 7. “Abed, stop being meta”: Community Deconstructs TV Tropes 8. “In One Indescribable Instant”: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Rom-Com-Musical Deconstruction 9. “Teachers at a school like Abbott...we have to be able to do it all”: Meta as Pedagogy in Abbott Elementary  Conclusion “The audience might just see through this little charade”: WandaVision and When Meta TV Goes Streaming

O autorze

Erin Giannini, PhD is an independent scholar, and author of Supernatural; A History of Television’s Unearthly Road Trip and The Good Place [TV Milestones], as well as co-editor of the book series B-TV: Television Under the Critical Radar for Bloomsbury.