Television Series as Literature

Book Overview

Introduction.- Block 1: TV Series as Literature in Theory.- Adapting Balzic for Television: Literariness and Authorial Identity on the Small Screen.- The Poetics of Screenwriting: Approaching the Teleplay from a Literary Perspective.- From Frenetic to Vivid: Phenomenological Reading to Immersive Television Narratives.- Literary Remediations of The Contemporary Television Series - From the Familiar to Storyttelling Originals.- The Literary in Television, or Why Should We Teach TV Series in Literature Departments.- Toward "Sphere Theory" Redefining the Narrative Genres of the Novel and the TV Drama Series.- The Academic Canonization of Media and Its Connections to Industry.- Literary Value and the Case of the Teleserye in the Philippines.- Block 2: Television Literature as Literature in Pratice.- "It's the Beauty that Hurts the Most" Rectify as Televisual Novel.- Angry Old Men? Reading ITV'S Morse Through the Lends of the Campus Novel.- "Read a Fucking Book!" Healing Trauma Through Reading in Boardwalk Empire.- Not Exactly Shakespeare? Shakespeare'S Plays, Ben Elton's Upstart Crow and the Problem of Literature on Television.- A Shift in Storytelling: Television Series over the Garden Wall as a Literary Reconstruction of Dante'S Divine Comedy.- Breaking Bad: Reading Freedom Through the Fragility of Private Space.- Rat Phones, Alligators, Lemon Pepper Wet: The Poetic Absurd of Atlanta.- Reading a Police Procedural as a Lyrical Text.- Audible Paratexts: Song Lyrics in Television Series.- Adult Fables in the Digital Age: A Literary Approach to Black Mirror.- "Literature/Film/Mad Men".- 'Married at First Sight': A TV Literature Experiment.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 981154719X
• ISBN13: 9789811547195
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 355 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"