Exploring Seriality on Screen

This collective book analyzes seriality as a major phenomenon increasingly connecting audiovisual narratives (cinematic films and television series) in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Autorentext

Ariane Hudelet is Associate Professor at Université de Paris (LARCA/CNRS), where she teaches English literature and Visual Culture. After working on film adaptations, she has devoted her most recent research to contemporary TV dramas, from an aesthetic and cultural perspective, and is co-editor of the online journal TV/Series.

Anne Crémieux is Associate Professor of American studies at Université Paris Nanterre (CREA). She has published books, articles and book chapters on the representation of minorities in cinema and television.

Inhalt

Introduction: Cinematic, Televisual or Post-Serialities

Ariane Hudelet and Anne Crémieux

Part 1: Serial Specifities

1. Opening Gambits: Cross-Media Self-Reflexivity and Audience Engagement in Serial Cinema, 1936-2008

Felix Brinker and Ilka Brasch

2. Ensemble Storytelling: Dramatic Television Seriality, the Melodramatic Mode, and Emotions

E. Deidre Pribram

3. The Cinematic-Televisual: Rethinking Medium Specificity in Television's New Golden Age

C.E. Harris

Part 2: Marketing Seriality

4. A Forgotten Episode in the History of Hollywood Cinema, Television and Seriality: The Case of the Mirisch Company

Paul Kerr

5. Diversions in the Hunger Games Film Series: The Fragmented Narrative of Hijacked Images

Chloé Monasterolo

6. Raising Caine: Hollywood Remakes of Michael Caine's Cockney Cycle

Agnieszka Rasmus

Part 3: Seriality and the Cinematic/Televisual Convergence

7. The (Re)Making of a Serial Killer: Replaying, "Preplaying" and Rewriting Hitchcock's Psycho in the Series Bates Motel

Dennis Tredy

8. Fargo (FX, 2014-) and Cinema: "Just Like in the Movie"?

Sylvaine Bataille

9. Screening Dreams: Twin Peaks, from the Series to the Film, back again and beyond

Sarah Hatchuel

Part 4: Meta-Serialities

10. In-between Still and Moving Pictures: Series and Seriality in Stephen Poliakoff's Serial Drama Shooting the Past (1999)

Nicole Cloarec

11. "The Abominable Bride" (Douglas Mackinnon, 2016): Sherlock and Seriality

Christophe Gelly

12. Subject Positions and Seriality in The Good Wife

Samuel Chambers