Figures of Time: Affect and the Television of Preemption

by Toni Pape

Many contemporary television series from Modern Family to How to Get Away with Murder open an episode or season with a conflict and then go back in time to show how that conflict came to be. In Figures of Time Toni Pape examines these narratives, showing how these leaps in time create aesthetic experiences of time that attune their audiences to the political doctrine of preemption--a logic that justifies preemptive action to nullify...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478004037
• ISBN13: 9781478004035
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"