Television Studies and Series Research: Theory, History and Present of (Post-)Televisual Seriality

ISBN-13: 9783658429140 / Angielski

Denis Newiak; Dominik Maeder; Herbert Schwaab

Spis treści

Contributions on: Television as a plural and transmedial concept?.- Spatialized transmediality - processual seriality.- Historical perspectives in the 'quality series' discourse of the television industry.- Television series against late modern loneliness: Forms of telemedial communion exemplified by 13 Reasons Why.- On expelling television from the television series: reality TV and staggered seriality.- Evidence in series? Time and reality references of serial television formats in the digital transformation.- Game in series - Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.

O autorze

Denis Newiak, M.A., is a PhD student in the Department of Applied Media Studies at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus.

Dominik Maeder, M.A., is a research assistant at the Institute for Media Studies at the University of Bonn.

Dr. Herbert Schwaab is a senior academic councillor at the Institute for Information and Media, Language and Culture at the University of Regensburg.

Blurb

Television series enjoy an unbroken - popular as well as scholarly - attention. It is surprising, however, that in works on seriality in media and cultural studies, approaches to television studies and television history still play a rather minor role. Yet seriality must always be thought of in terms of television, since the two have always been indissolubly interwoven - economically, technically, and aesthetically. But what else constitutes the serial in television and how does it change its face in times of digitalization, streaming and interactivity? Is it possible to think of a genuine serial theory of the televisual - and what, in turn, can be learned from this for seriality beyond television? The essays in this volume contribute to shedding new light on the serial as a core principle of television and to providing new impulses for a television theory of the serial on the basis of diverse examples from the current range of television series.

The editors

Denis Newiak, M.A., is a doctoral candidate in Applied Media Studies at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus.

Dominik Maeder, M.A., is a research assistant at the Institute for Media Studies at the University of Bonn.

Dr. Herbert Schwaab is a senior academic councillor at the Institute for Information and Media, Language and Culture at the University of Regensburg.

This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.