Television Series as Literature 1st Edition by Reto Winckler 9789811547195 981154719X

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• ISBN 10: 981154719X
• ISBN 13: 9789811547195
• Author: Reto Winckler

This book explores how television series can be understood as a form of literature, bridging the gap between literary and television studies. It goes beyond existing adaptation studies and narratological approaches to television series in both its scope and depth. The respective chapters address literary works, themes, tropes, techniques, values, genres, and movements in relation to a broad variety of television series, while drawing on the theoretical work of a host of scholars from Simone de Beauvoir and Yuri Lotman to Ted Nannicelli and Jason Mittel, and on critical approaches ranging from narratology and semiotics to empirical sociology and phenomenology.

The book fosters new ways of understanding television series and literature and lays the groundwork for future scholarship in a number of fields. By questioning the alleged divide between television series and works of literature, it contributes not only to a better understanding of television series and literary texts themselves, but also to the development of interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: Considering Television Series as Literature
Part I. Theory
2. “As Literature” Approaches and the Academic Canonization of Television Studies
3. Toward Sphere Theory
4. The Poetics of Screenwriting: Approaching the Teleplay from a Literary Perspective
5. From Frenetic to Vivid: Phenomenological Reading of Immersive Television Narratives in Black Mirror and Russian Doll
6. Simone de Beauvoir Meets Walter White: Breaking Bad as Authentic Literature
7. Literary Remediations of Contemporary Television Series: From The Familiar to Storytel Originals
8. The Literary in Television, or Why We Should Teach TV Series in Literature Departments
9. The Teleserye as Literature and Pangako Sa ‘Yo
Part II. Practice
10. Rat Phones, Alligators, Lemon Pepper Wet: The New Absurd of Atlanta
11. Reading a Police Procedural as a Lyrical Text
12. Contemporary Fables in the Digital Age: A Literary Approach to Black Mirror
13. ‘University Politics’: Change and Continuity in Representations of Higher Education Between ITV’s Series Inspector Morse and Colin Dexter’s Morse Novels
14. Musical Paratexts: Song Lyrics in Television Series
15. “It’s the Beauty that Hurts the Most”: Rectify as Televisual Novel
16. “Draped in the American Flag, Burning”: Mad Men and the Literary Tradition
17. “Read a Fucking Book!”: Reading for Redemption in Boardwalk Empire
18. Shakespearean Sitcom: Upstart Crow, Shakespeare’s Plays and the Problem of Literature on Television
Part III. Postscript
19. Married at First Sight: A TV Literature Experiment

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