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Record Nr.

UNISA996649871703316

Autore

Naumann Sebastian

Titolo

The Politics of Serial Television Fiction : Structural Developments, Narrative Themes, and the Nonlinear Turn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

9783839475683

3839475686

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (433 pages)

Collana

Serien- und Fernsehforschung : TRSSEFE ; ; 2

Altri autori (Persone)

ArndtMaria

Disciplina

791.456581

Soggetti

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Contemporary TV, Complexity, Power Struggles and the Cynical Turn -- 3. Actors, Games, and Players -- 4. Royal Performance and the Queen’s Three Bodies -- 5. Overcoming Omnishambles -- 6. The Curious Case of Volodymyr Zelensky and Vasyl Petrovych Holoborodko -- 7. Modelling Malfunction and Inverting the Populist Quest -- 8. Starting “from some kind of scratch” -- 9. Conclusion -- List of Contemporary Polit-Series -- Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

Fictional TV politics played a pivotal role in the popular imaginaries of the 2010s across cultures. Examining this curious phenomenon, Sebastian Naumann provides a wide-ranging analysis of the rapidly evolving landscape of contemporary polit-series. Proposing a novel structural model of serial television, he offers an innovative methodological framework for comparative textual analysis that integrates sociocultural, economic, sociotechnical, narratological, and aesthetic perspectives. This study furthermore explores how the changing affordances of (nonlinear) television impact serial storytelling and identifies key narrative trends and recurring themes in contemporary TV polit-fiction.