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Concept TV : an aesthetics of television series / Luca Bandirali and Enrico Terrone.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bandirali, Luca, 1973- author.
- Terrone, Enrico, 1970- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Filosofia delle serie TV. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Television series--United States--History and criticism.
- Television series.
- Television series--Philosophy.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (135 pages)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2021.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2021]
- Summary:
- Television series seem to be made of images and sounds just like films, but Luca Bandirali and Enrico Terrone suggest an alternate framework for understanding television series: as concepts whereby narratives made of images and sounds can be constructed.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Problem: Supersize Narratives
- Television Series as Megamovies
- The Vast Amount of Time
- The Norms of Audiovisual Narrative
- The Clash between Norms and Time
- Filling Strategies
- Two Alternative Conclusions
- Chapter 2: The Solution: Conceptual Narratives
- Video Art, Film, Television
- Arguing for the Conceptual Hypothesis
- Television Series as Conceptual Narratives
- Ontology and Evaluation
- The Components of Conceptual Narratives
- Chapter 3: The Upshot: Engaging with Conceptual Narratives
- The Normativity of Conceptual Narratives
- The Evaluation of Conceptual Narratives
- Approaches to Evaluation
- Modes of Conceptual Narratives
- Conceptual Metanarratives
- Serialized Series
- Serialized Characters
- Conclusion: Rethinking Television Series
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Authors.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-66698-769-7
- 1-4985-9757-2
- OCLC:
- 1257316646
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