Exploring Seriality on Screen: Audiovisual Narratives in Film and Television

This collective book explores seriality as a phenomenon connecting audiovisual narratives in the 20th and 21st centuries, combining narratological, aesthetic, industrial, philosophical, and political perspectives. It offers a comprehensive analysis of issues related to seriality, including audience engagement, intertextuality, transmediality, cultural legitimacy, authorship, and medium specificity. Written by international scholars, the book appeals to scholars and students across disciplinary areas and fans of serial audiovisual narratives.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 270 pages
Publication date: 01 August 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive volume delves into the pervasive phenomenon of seriality, which has been increasingly linking audiovisual narratives across the 20th and 21st centuries. By tracing the historical roots and contextualizing the concept of seriality, the book combines diverse narratological, aesthetic, industrial, philosophical, and political perspectives, illuminating how seriality functions as a paradigm that shapes media convergence and forms the very essence of cinema and television history. Through a combination of theoretical considerations, close readings of specific works, and diachronic and synchronic approaches, the volume presents a multifaceted exploration of issues related to seriality, encompassing audience engagement, intertextuality, transmediality, cultural legitimacy, authorship, and medium specificity in remakes, adaptations, sequels, and reboots.

Written by a team of esteemed international scholars, this book showcases a wide range of methodologies that will appeal to scholars and doctoral students across various disciplinary fields, including media studies, film studies, literature, aesthetics, and cultural studies. It will also be of interest to students enrolled in courses focused on serial audiovisual narratives and will captivate fans of the series addressed in the book, such as Fargo, Twin Peaks, The Hunger Games, Bates Motel, and Sherlock.

Weight: 530g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367491475