Reading Contemporary TV Series: Aesthetics, Themes, and Reception

ISBN-13: 9783631862469 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 178 str.

Ludmila Gruszewska-Blaim; Milosz Wojtyna; Barbara Miceli

Opis

This book observes how rapid development of the TV series in the twenty-first century has resulted in an emergence of new aesthetic, cultural, and social trends. Reading TV series today, understanding its formal characteristics, and understanding its nuances is a way of interpreting the verbal-visual divide in contemporary mediatized culture.

Spis treści

Aesthetics, Themes, and Reception of 21st-century TV series. Subject matters discussed: Narrative Conventions and Experimentation; Visual Complexity and the Spectacle; Seriality and the Segmented Experience of Narrative; Representations of Female Identity, Representation of Race and Ethnicity, Dystopian Futures and (Not Too) Fictional Presents: Living the Covid-19 Pandemic; Reader/Viewer and the Text; Watching is the New Reading: Defining Reader's Competences; Multimodal TV Series

O autorze

Milosz Wojtyna - Assistant Professor at the University of Gdansk, Poland. He specializes in narratology and communication theory. His current research is concerned with virtual reality and the simulacra of Internet culture.Barbara Miceli - Assistant Professor at the University of Gdansk. She specializes in the relationship between fact and fiction in contemporary American novel and TV.Roksana Zgierska - Assistant Professor at the University of Gdansk. She specializes in contemporary narrative theory with the emphasis on the role of the reader, intertextuality and transmedia.