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Figures of time : affect and the television of preemption / Toni Pape.
LIBRA PN1992.6 .P36 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pape, Toni, 1983- author.
- Series:
- Thought in the act
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Television programs--Political aspects--United States.
- Television programs.
- Television programs--Social aspects--United States.
- Television broadcasting--United States--Influence.
- Television broadcasting.
- Time on television.
- Television programs--Plots, themes, etc.
- Future, The, in popular culture.
- Political culture--United States.
- Political culture.
- Television programs--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Television broadcasting--Influence.
- Physical Description:
- 218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- Many contemporary television series from 'Modern Family' to 'How to Get Away with Murder' open an episode or season with a conflict and then go back in time to show how that conflict came to be. In 'Figures of Time' Toni Pape examines these narratives, showing how these leaps in time create aesthetic experiences of time that attune their audiences to the political doctrine of preemption-a logic that justifies preemptive action to nullify a perceived future threat. Examining questions of temporality in 'Life on Mars', the political ramifications of living under the auspices of a catastrophic future in 'FlashForward', and how 'Damages' disrupts the logic of preemption, Pape shows how television helps shift political culture away from a model of rational deliberation and representation toward a politics of preemption and conformity. Exposing the mechanisms through which television supports a fear-based politics, Pape contends, will allow for the rechanneling of television's affective force into building a more productive and positive politics.
- Contents:
- The serial machine : toward figures of time
- Three representations and a figural : Bergsonian variations on metric time, the virtual, and creative becoming
- Loop into line : the moral command of preemption
- Damages as procedural television.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Pape, Toni, 1983- author. Figures of time
- ISBN:
- 9781478003731
- 1478003731
- 9781478004035
- 1478004037
- OCLC:
- 1037808806
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