Cognition, Emotion, and Aesthetics in Contemporary Serial Television

This book posits an interconnection between the ways in which contemporary television serials cue cognitive operations, solicit emotional responses, and elicit aesthetic appreciation.

Autorentext

Ted Nannicelli is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at The University of Queensland. He is editor of Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind, *co-editor of Cognitive Media Theory (2014), and author of Appreciating the Art of Television: A Philosophical Perspective.*

Héctor J. Pérez is Associate Professor of Audiovisual Narrative at the Universitat Politècnica de València. He has published widely in scientific journals such as Projections, Culture & Psychology, Aisthesis, and L'Atalante. He is editor of SERIES, International Journal of TV Serial Narratives.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Cognition, Emotion, and Aesthetics in Contemporary Serial Television Part 1. The Nature of Contemporary Televisual Seriality 2. Television's Temporality: Seriality and Temporal Prolongation 3. Multi-plot Structure in Television Serials 4. Oh My God, They Didn't Kill Kenny: Seriality and Viewer Engagement in Contemporary Animated Television 5. Seriality and Expressiveness in Mad Men Part 2. Audiences 6. From Shots to Storyworlds: The Cognitive Processes Supporting the Comprehension of Serialized Television 7. Beliefs, Desires, and Emotions: A Theory of Emotions and Some Implications for the Understanding of Viewer Reactions to TV Serials Part 3. Poetics 8. Reaching through Time: On Seriality, Temporality, and Twofoldness 9. Five Theses on the Difficulty of Ending Quality TV Series 10. Pop Music in Television Serials: Priming, Authorial Commentary, and Musical Memory 11. Twin Peaks and the Performative Poetics of Complex Television 12. Parallelism and Complex Storytelling in Film and TV Part 4. Value: Aesthetic and Beyond 13. Audiovisual Atmospheres, Moods, and Metaphoric Spaces: Aesthetically Rich Spaces in Complex TV Series 14. Repetition, Familiarity, and Aesthetic Pleasure: Formulaic Generic Television Series 15. Ethics and Bad Protagonists in Serial Television Drama 16. A Sense of Moment: Appreciating Television Serials from Aesthetic and Cognitive Perspectives