"Critical Reflections on Audience and Narrativity -- New connections, New perspectives" offers an interdisciplinary and multicultural approach to fiction, reality, and narrativity applied to television series from all over the world. Dissecting the almost invisible barrier between fiction and reality in TV series from various perspectives, the chapters cover a wide range of contemporary classics from the post-network age. From "The X-Files" and "Desperate Housewives" to "The Wire" and "Breaking Bad", the chapters sketch TV series' development from the lowest form of mass entertainment to the sophisticated vehicle of highbrow intertextuality on a global scale.Also covering many international cases from Brazil, Serbia, Romania, and Turkey and locating them in the global web of puzzle narratives, the unique contributions draw connections between the most diverse audiences and the way they receive modern storytelling in a culturally globalized world. This timely volume is a great resource for anyone interested in contemporary mass culture.
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The new perspectives offered by this volume are of great interest for any European and International scholar mainly because the volume brings to light new ideas, new methodologies and results that could be further developed. Furthermore it is outstanding that the contributors to this book come from different countries (UK, Germany, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania) and somehow reach a common language in their studies. -- Michael Higgins, University of Strathclyde, UK The book is divided into 14 chapters that bring a new perspective on the study of television series. This allows readers to drill in, even if they are not senior researchers, to easily digest the content and also to acknowledge the impact of television series viewing on reality and on their own lives. -- Stamatis Poulakidakos, University of Athens, Greece
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Does the cultural capital compensate for the cultural discount? Why do German students prefer US-American TV series? |
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Awake, or the multiplication of the realities Contemporary Television Series: Narrative Structures and Audience Perception |
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"Three hundred channels and nothing's on": Metaleptic Genre-Mixing in Supernatural |
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Appreciating Nietzsche in Episodic Drama: The Highbrow Intertextuality and Middlebrow Reception of Criminal Minds |
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The Seed of an Idea and its Cognitive Field: Minding the Gap of Alternate Reality in Flash Forward and Fringe |
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Breaking Narrative: Narrative Complexity in Contemporary Television |
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The Walking Dead and the Truly Monstrous... on Television |
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Television Cosmo-Mythologies: The Return to Mythological Naratives in Television Fiction, from The Prisoner to Lost |
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Breaking Bad, a Character-Based Formula |
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Representing Occupations in Media and Audience Perceptions of TV Series |
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Homeland: War on Terror Revisited |
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Understanding Health in Grey's Anatomy Television Series |
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Fiction Television in Brazil: New Perspectives |
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TV Series Bolji zivot (1987--1991): View from the Future |
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The X-Factor of Singing Competitions TV Series |
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TV Drama as a Narrative form: Scenes from a Gendered and a Sacralized Cultural Sphere in Turkish Society |
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Maria Teresa Nicolas Gavilan |
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Carmen Silvia Sanchez Arana |
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Tania Alejandra Benitez Sanchez |
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Valentina Marinescu is Associate Professor Ph. D. at the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in media and society, research methods for mass communication, analysis of media content. Her interests lie in media and communication studies in Eastern Europe. She has also published several papers on these subjects.Silvia Branea is Associate Professor Ph.D. at the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of Bucharest, and Associate Researcher at the Laboratory of Sociology, Communication and Public Sphere, Institute of Sociology, Romanian Academy. She has an outstanding list of publications and presentations to International Conferences. Her interests lie in media and communication studies. Bianca Mitu has a PhD in Media and Communication Studies, University of Bucharest. She is co-director of the Media and Communication Research Center ccmrc.eu and a part-time lecturer at the University of Bucharest. She was Visiting Scholar at CAMRI, University of Westminster, Faculty of Arts, Media and Design, London. She also holds a master degree in Media and Communication. She has a number of publications in International Journals in Italy, Germany, and the USA and she is a member of IAMCR, ECREA, UK Social Policy, and of the Editorial Board of the International Journal Interpersona, International Journal of Communication and Health, and International Journal of Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago.
