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Narrative strategies in television series / edited by Gaby Allrath and Marion Gymnich

Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005Description: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 231 Seiten) : illustrationsISBN:
  • 0230501001
  • 9780230501003
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 1403996059 | 9781403996053 | Erscheint auch als: Narrative strategies in television series. Druck-Ausgabe. 1. publ. Basingstoke [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. XI, 231 S.RVK: RVK: AP 36320LOC classification:
  • PN1992.8.S4
Online resources: Summary: 10 History and Biography in Die zweite Heimat: Narrative Strategies to Represent the Past -- 11 History: The Sitcom, England: The Theme Park -- Blackadder's Retrovisions as Historiographic Meta-TV -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.Summary: Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Towards a Narratology of TV Series -- Part I Beyond Realism: Authentifying and Subjectifying Narrative Strategies -- 2 'Today is going to be the longest day of my life': A Narratological Analysis of 24 -- 3 Exploring Inner Spaces: Authoritative Narratives and Subjective Worlds in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise -- 4 Animated Cartoons and Other Innovative Forms of Presenting Consciousness on Screen: The German TV Series Berlin, Berlin.Summary: In the context of a systematic overview of the possibilities of applying narratological concepts to a study of TV series, ten case studies are explored in depth, demonstrating how series such as 24, Buffy, Twin Peaks, Star Trek, Blackadder, and Sex and the City make use of innovative audiovisual means of storytelling. Transgressing the traditional confines of narrative theory, the chapter authors address the question of how form, content, and function intersect in these seriesSummary: Part II Multi-layered Characters, Multi-layered Narratives -- 5 'She's filled with secrets': Hidden Worlds, Embedded Narratives and Character Doubling in Twin Peaks -- 6 'This is not happening': The Multi-layered Ontology of The X-Files -- 7 Life in Doppelgangland: Innovative Character Conception and Alternate Worlds in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel -- Part III Narrating Gender/Gendering Narratives -- 8 Serial Gossip: Gossip as Theme and Narrative Strategy in Sex and the City -- 9 Ellen Degenarrated: Breaking the Heteronormative Narrative Contract -- Part IV (Re)Narrating History.PPN: PPN: 1853826731Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-4-NLEBK
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