Reading Contemporary TV Series

This book observes how rapid development of the TV series in the twenty-first century has resulted in an emergence of new aesthetic, cultural, and social trends. Reading TV series today, understanding its formal characteristics, and understanding its nuances is a way of interpreting the verbal-visual divide in contemporary mediatized culture.

Autorentext

Milosz Wojtyna - Assistant Professor at the University of Gdansk, Poland. He specializes in narratology and communication theory. His current research is concerned with virtual reality and the simulacra of Internet culture.

Barbara Miceli - Assistant Professor at the University of Gdansk. She specializes in the relationship between fact and fiction in contemporary American novel and TV.

Roksana Zgierska - Assistant Professor at the University of Gdansk. She specializes in contemporary narrative theory with the emphasis on the role of the reader, intertextuality and transmedia.

Inhalt

Aesthetics, Themes, and Reception of 21st-century TV series. Subject matters discussed: Narrative Conventions and Experimentation; Visual Complexity and the Spectacle; Seriality and the Segmented Experience of Narrative; Representations of Female Identity, Representation of Race and Ethnicity, Dystopian Futures and (Not Too) Fictional Presents: Living the Covid-19 Pandemic; Reader/Viewer and the Text; Watching is the New Reading: Defining Reader's Competences; Multimodal TV Series