Reading Contemporary TV Series

Aesthetics, Themes, and Reception

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by Miłosz Wojtyna, Barbara Miceli and Roksana Zgierska

Type

Studies

Subject

Genre > TV Series

Keywords

TV Series, analysis, genre

Publishing date

2022

Publisher

Peter Lang

Collection

Mediated Fictions: Studies in Verbal and Visual Narratives, 20

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 212 pages
5 ½ x 8 ½ inches (14 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN

978-3-631-86246-9

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Book Presentation:
The rapid development of the TV series in the twenty-first century has resulted in an emergence of new aesthetic, cultural, and social trends. The development has influenced both the mainstream of popular culture and reception practices of audiences across nations and platforms. This book observes how the means employed in key contemporary TV series texts and a specific thematic variety have promoted new reception styles and redefined conventional interpretive practices. The authors analyze a variety of series released since 2000 to discuss historical (dis)continuities of genres and conventions, and observe how interpretive competences promoted by the rhetoric of contemporary TV series result from, and are polemical with, the conventions of visual and verbal cultures of preceding decades.

About the authors:
Miłosz Wojtyna – Assistant Professor at the University of Gdańsk, Poland. He specializes in narratology and communication theory. His current research is concerned with virtual reality and the simulacra of Internet culture.Barbara Miceli – Assistant Professor at the University of Gdańsk. She specializes in the relationship between fact and fiction in contemporary American novel and TV.Roksana Zgierska – Assistant Professor at the University of Gdańsk. She specializes in contemporary narrative theory with the emphasis on the role of the reader, intertextuality and transmedia.

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