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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255073103321

Autore

Kelly JP

Titolo

Time, Technology and Narrative Form in Contemporary US Television Drama : Pause, Rewind, Record / / by JP Kelly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-63118-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 279 p. 14 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

791.4575

Soggetti

Motion pictures

Culture

Technology

United States—Study and teaching

Digital media

Film/TV Technology

Culture and Technology

American Culture

Digital/New Media

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. PART I. POWER ON - A (Very) Brief History of Time: From Analogue to Digital -- 3. The Temporal Regimes of TVIII: From Broadcasting to Streaming -- 4. PART II. ACCELERATION -  In the “Perpetual Now”: Split-Screens, Simultaneity & Seriality -- 5. A Stretch of Time: Extended Distribution & Narrative Accumulation -- 6. PART III. COMPLEXITY - Time Shifting in TVIII: The Industrial, Textual & Paratextual Complexities of Prime Time Drama -- 7. ‘Remembering What Will Be’: Prolepsis, Pre-sales, & Premediation in TVIII -- 8. PART IV. RETROSPECTION - Deja View: Media, Memory & Marketing in TVIII -- 9. CONCLUSION -“Previously On…”: Recapping the Narrative and Distributive Temporalities of TVIII.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines how television has been transformed over the past twenty years by the introduction of new viewing technologies including



DVDs, DVRs and streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime. It shows that these platforms have profoundly altered the ways we access and watch television, enabling viewers to pause, rewind, record and archive the once irreversible flow of broadcast TV. JP Kelly argues that changes in the technological landscape of television has encouraged the production of narrative forms that both explore and embody new industrial temporalities. Focusing on US television but also considering the role of TV within a global marketplace, the author identifies three distinct narrative temporalities: “acceleration” (24; Prison Break), “complexity” (Lost; FlashForward), and “retrospection” (Mad Men).  Through industrial-textual analysis of television shows, this cross-disciplinary study locates these na rrative temporalities in their socio-cultural contexts and examines connections between production, distribution, and narrative form in the contemporary television industry.