Time in television narrative
Subtitle: exploring temporality in twenty-first century programming
By: edited by Melissa Ames
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781617032936; 9781617032943
Subjects: Time on television; Television programs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: television studies in the twenty-first century; title: Promoting the future of experimental tv: the industry changes and technological advancements that paved the way to "new" television ventures. Television's paradigm (time)shift: production and consumption practices in the post-network era / Todd M. Sodano; title: "A stretch of time": extended distribution and narrative accumulation in Prison break / J. P. Kelly; title: "It's not unknown": the loose- and dead-end afterlives of Battlestar Galactica and Lost / Jordan Lavender-Smith; title: Zero-degree seriality: television narrative in the post-network era / Norman M. Gendelman; title: "Play it again, Sam; title: and Dean": temporality and meta-textuality in Supernatural / Michael Fuchs; title: Historicizing the moment: how the cultural climate impacts. Temporal manipulation on the small screen. Temporality and trauma in American sci-fi television / Aris Mousoutzanis; title: The fear of the future and the pain of the past: the quest to cheat time in Heroes, FlashForward, and Fringe / Melissa Ames; title: Lost in our middle hour: faith, fate, and redemption post-9/11 / Sarah Himsel Burcon; title: "New beginnings only lead to painful ends": "undeading" and fear of consequences in Pushing daisies / Kasey Butcher; title: The functions of time: analyzing the effects of nonnormative narrative structure(s). "Did you get pears?": temporality and temps mortality in The wire, Mad men, and Arrested development / Gry C. Rustad and Timotheus Vermeulen; title: Temporalities on collision course: time, knowledge, and temporal critique in Damages / Toni Pape; title: Freaks of time: reevaluating memory and identity through Daniel Knauf's Carnivale / Frida Beckman; title: The discourse of medium: time as a narrative device / Kristi McDuffie; title: Moving beyond the televisual restraints of the past: reimagining genres and formats. Making sense of the future: narrative destabilization in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse / Casey J. McCormick; title: Why 30 Rock rocks and The Office needs some work: the role of time/space in contemporary TV sitcoms / Colin Irvine; title: Change the structure, change the ttory: How I met your mother and the reformulation of the television romance / Molly Brost; title: Like sands through the half-hourglass: Nurse Jackie and temporal disruption / Janani Subramanian; title: The television musical: Glee's new directions / Jack Harrison; title: Playing outside of the box: the role time plays in fan fiction, online communities, and audience studies. "Nothing happens unless first a dream": TV fandom. Narrative structure, and the alternate universes of bones / Melanie Cattrell; title: Two days before the day after tomorrow: time, temporality, and fandom in South Park / Jason W. Buel; title: Lost in time?: Lost fan engagement with temporal play / Lucy Bennett.