Brevity and the Short Form in Serial Television / edited by Shannon Wells-Lassagne, Sylvaine Bataille, and Florence Cabaret.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wells-Lassagne, Shannon, editor.

Bataille, Sylvaine, editor.

Cabaret, Florence, editor.

Series:

Screen serialities.

Screen Serialities Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television programs.

Television series.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2024]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Focuses on television fictions as short forms rather than expansive narratives, and how this relates to their seriality.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part 1 Confirming and Deconstructing Television Traditions of Brevity

1 Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Subverting Anthology TV Series

2 The Jewel in the Crown: A Miniseries between Short and Long

3 Short Middle Ages: Comic Dramatisation of Rhythm in French Shortcom Kaamelott

4 Short but Serious? Slimming Down the Episode in Prestige Drama Homecoming

5 Twin Peaks, 25 Years Later: Whatever Happens Happens Now, and Nothing Else Matters

Part 2 New Media and New Forms: Web-series, Streaming Platforms and the Short Form

6 Orders of Magnitude: Fractality and Granularity in Contemporary Television Series

7 Minute by Minute: Short Form Seriality and Social Viewing and Waiting in SKAM

8 Narrative Efficiency and the Constraints of the Short Form in Les Engages

9 Crisis on Earth-X or the Status of the Crossover Event

Part 3 Blurring Boundaries: Production, Paratexts and Reception of the Short Form

10 Loops, Bottles and Clips: Structuring Brevity in American Television

1 1 Ovulate and Repeat: Temporal Uncertainties and the Serialising Effect of Narratives of Womens Time in the Sitcom Friends

12 Spoilers Ahead! : Shortcircuiting Complex Series in Explainer Online Videos

13 Writing En therapie: A Conversation with Vincent Poymiro

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781474482066

1474482066

9781474482073

1474482074