Reading Contemporary Serial Television Universes

Name: Reading Contemporary Serial Television Universes
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Reading Contemporary Serial Television UniversesA Narrative Ecosystem Framework\nAuthor(s): Paola Brembilla, Ilaria A. De Pascalis\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138071391, 978-1138071391\nSynopsis\nReading Contemporary Serial Television Universes provides a new frameworkthe metaphor of the narrative ecosystemfor the analysis of serial television narratives. Contributors use this metaphor to address the ever-expanding and evolving structure of narratives far beyond their usual spatial and temporal borders, in general and in reference to specific series. Other scholarly approaches consider each narrative as composed of modular elements, which combine to create a bigger picture. The narrative ecosystem approach, on the other hand, argues that each portion of the narrative world contains all of the main elements that characterize the world as a whole, such as narrative tensions, production structures, creative dyn.