Time in television narrative : exploring temporality in twenty-first century programming / edited by Melissa Ames.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ames, Melissa, 1978-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television programs--United States.

Television programs.

Time on television.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection analyzes twenty-first-century American television programs that rely upon temporal and narrative experimentation. These shows play with time, slowing it down to unfold the narrative through time retardation and compression. They disrupt the chronological flow of time itself, using flashbacks and insisting that viewers be able to situate themselves in both the present and the past narrative threads. Although temporal play has existed on the small screen prior to the new millennium, never before has narrative time been so freely adapted in mainstream television. The essayists off

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Television Studies in the Twenty-First Century; I. PROMOTING THE FUTURE OF EXPERIMENTAL TV: The Industry Changes and Technological Advancements That Paved the Way to "New" Television Ventures; 1. Television's Paradigm (Time)shift: Production and Consumption Practices in the Post-Network Era; 2. "A stretch of Time": Extended Distribution and Narrative Accumulation in Prison Break; 3. "It's Not Unknown": The Loose- and Dead-End Afterlives of Battlestar Galactica and Lost; 4. Zero-Degree Seriality: Television Narrative in the Post-Network Era

5. "Play it again, sam . . . and Dean": Temporality and Meta-Textuality in SupernaturalII. HISTORICIZING THE MOMENT: How the Cultural Climate Impacts Temporal Manipulation on the Small Screen; 6. Temporality and Trauma in American Sci-Fi Television; 7. The Fear of the Future and the Pain of the Past: The Quest to Cheat Time in Heroes, FlashForward, and Fringe; 8. Lost in Our Middle Hour: Faith, Fate, and Redemption Post-9/11; 9. "New Beginnings Only lead to Painful Ends": "Undeading" and Fear of Consequences in Pushing Daisies

III. THE FUNCTIONS OF TIME: Analyzing the Effects of Nonnormative Narrative Structure(s)10. "Did You Get Pears?": Temporality and Temps Mortality in The Wire, Mad Men, and Arrested Development; 11. Temporalities on Collision Course: Time, Knowledge, and Temporal Critique in Damages; 12. Freaks of Time: Reevaluating Memory and Identity through Daniel Knauf's Carnivàle; 13. The Discourse of Medium: Time as a Narrative Device; IV. MOVING BEYOND THE TELEVISUAL RESTRAINTS OF THE PAST: Reimagining Genres and Formats

14. Making Sense of the Future: Narrative Destabilization in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse15. Why 30 Rock rocks and The Office needs some Work: The Role of Time/Space in Contemporary TV Sitcoms; 16. Change the Structure, Change the Story: How I Met your Mother and the Reformulation of the Television Romance; 17. Like Sands through the Half-Hourglass: Nurse Jackie and Temporal Disruption; 18. The Television Musical: Glee's New Directions; V. PLAYING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX:The Role Time Plays in Fan Fiction, online Communities, and Audience Studies

19. "Nothing Happens Unless First a Dream": TV Fandom, Narrative Structure, and the Alternate Universes of Bones20. Two Days before the Day after Tomorrow: Time, Temporality, and Fandom in South Park; 21. Lost in Time?: Lost Fan Engagement with Temporal Play; About the Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-69161-1

9786613668554

1-61703-294-8

OCLC:

762768958