Time, Technology and Narrative Form in Contemporary Us Television Drama: Pause, Rewind, Record

By Jp Kelly

Book Overview

Offers a unique and detailed account of new narrative temporalities in television drama by adopting a model of "industrial poetics"

Argues that the emergence of new narrative temporalities means that TV drama should be approached through the lens of narrative time

Examines a wide range of narrative temporalities and key texts, including real-time (24), acceleration (Prison Break), non-linear time (Lost), prolepsis (FlashForward), and slowness and retrospection (Mad Men, Rubicon)

Situates US television programmes in a transnational context, and examines contemporary narrative form and the temporal regimes of an increasingly global industry

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319631179
• ISBN13: 9783319631172
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"