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  • Turkish Drama Serials

    The Importance and Influence of a Globally Popular Television Phenomenon

    by Miriam Berg ...
    The extraordinary global success of Turkish drama serials is a significant development in contemporary popular culture. This book presents comparative audience data from three different regions to explore its ramifications across the Global South. We learn how this phenomenon has transformed Turkey—a Muslim-majority country—into the world’s second-largest producer of scripted television serials, ... Read more

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  • Emotional Expressionism

    Television Serialization, the Melodramatic Mode, and Socioemotionality

    by E. Deidre Pribram ...
    In Emotional Expressionism: Television Seriality, the Melodramatic Mode, and Socioemotionality, E. Deidre Pribram examines emotions as social relations through the lens of dramatic television serials as contemporary melodrama. She develops the concept of socioemotionality, addressing sociocultural forms of felt experience and exploring the role of emotions in forging narrative worlds. Through ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Other Wars, Other Worlds

    Based on the BBC television serials by Mervyn Haisman & Henry Lincoln

    by Robert Mammone ...
    Series Book 1 - Travers and Wells
    “For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there with my friend, Edward Travers, the last men left alive.”Edward Travers, pulled out of time by a mysterious force, finds himself on a hill with a young man called Herbert George Wells. Together the men travel across England, intent on discovering where they are; a world distinctly different from the one ... Read more

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  • Reading Contemporary Serial Television Universes

    A Narrative Ecosystem Framework

    Edited by Paola Brembilla, Ilaria A. De Pascalis ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Television Studies
    Reading Contemporary Serial Television Universes provides a new framework—the metaphor of the narrative ecosystem—for the analysis of serial television narratives. Contributors use this metaphor to address the ever-expanding and evolving structure of narratives far beyond their usual spatial and temporal borders, in general and in reference to specific series. Other scholarly approaches consider ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Television Studies and Research on Series

    Theory, history and present of (post-)televisual seriality

    Edited by Denis Newiak, Dominik Maeder, Herbert Schwaab ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Television series enjoy an unbroken - popular as well as scholarly - attention. It is surprising, however, that in works on seriality in media and cultural studies, approaches to television studies and television history still play a rather minor role. Yet seriality should always be thought of in terms of television, since the two have always been inextricably interwoven - economically, ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Cognition, Emotion, and Aesthetics in Contemporary Serial Television

    Edited by Ted Nannicelli, Héctor J. Pérez ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Television Studies
    This book posits an interconnection between the ways in which contemporary television serials cue cognitive operations, solicit emotional responses, and elicit aesthetic appreciation.The chapters explore a number of questions including: How do the particularities of form and style in contemporary serial television engage us cognitively, emotionally, and aesthetically? How do they foster cognitive ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • TV Series of 2014 and the New Era of Serialized Storytelling

    by Aaron Stewart ...
    "TV Series of 2014 and the New Era of Serialized Storytelling" by Aaron Stewart is an insightful exploration of television's transformation into a sophisticated storytelling medium. This book dives deep into the breakout series of 2014, such as True Detective, The Leftovers, Fargo, and Orange is the New Black, highlighting how they revolutionized serialized television. With a focus on narrative ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Serial Killers in Contemporary Television

    Familiar Monsters in Post-9/11 Culture

    Edited by Brett A.B. Robinson, Christine Daigle ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    This volume examines the significant increase in representations of serial killers as central characters in popular television over the last two decades. Via critical analyses of the philosophical and existential themes presented to viewers and their place in the cultural landscape of contemporary America, the authors ask: What is it about serial killers that incited such a boom in these types of ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Exploring Seriality on Screen

    Audiovisual Narratives in Film and Television

    Edited by Ariane Hudelet, Anne Crémieux ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    This collective book analyzes seriality as a major phenomenon increasingly connecting audiovisual narratives (cinematic films and television series) in the 20th and 21st centuries.The book historicizes and contextualizes the notion of seriality, combining narratological, aesthetic, industrial, philosophical, and political perspectives, showing how seriality as a paradigm informs media convergence ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Class Divisions in Serial Television

    Edited by Sieglinde Lemke, Wibke Schniedermann ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book brings the emergent interest in social class and inequality to the field of television studies. It reveals how the new visibility of class matters in serial television functions aesthetically and examines the cultural class politics articulated in these programmes. This ground-breaking volume argues that reality and quality TV’s intricate politics of class entices viewers not only to ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Community, Seriality, and the State of the Nation: British and Irish Television Series in the 21st Century

    Edited by Caroline Lusin, Ralf Haekel ...
    Series Book 83 - Mannheimer Beiträge zur Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft
    Since the turn of the 21st century, the television series has rivalled cinema as the paradigmatic filmic medium. Like few other genres, it lends itself to exploring society in its different layers. In the case of Great Britain and Ireland, it functions as a key medium in depicting the state of the nation. Focussing on questions of genre, narrative form, and serialisation, this volume examines the ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Over and Over

    Performance, Time, and Resonance in Serial Television Drama

    by Elliott Logan ...
    Series series Techniques of the Moving Image
    How does serial drama earn, keep, and reward our attention for so long—over episodes, seasons, months, and years? While we know that characters are the focus of story and viewer interest in television fiction, scholars have for decades overlooked the way those characters are performed on-screen and the lure of performance as a key formal and thematic aspect of long-form television storytelling. In ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD