Media of Serial Narrative

by Frank Kelleter (Editor)

Overview

Media of Serial Narrative, edited by Frank Kelleter, is the first book-length study to address the increasingly popular topic of serial narratives—specifically, how practices and forms of seriality shape media throughout the landscape of popular culture. In modern entertainment formats, seriality and popularity can seem so obviously connected that scholarship has long neglected to address their specific interrelations. This volume looks closely at the relationship between seriality, popularity, media, and narrative form and asks: What are the structural conditions of serial stories? Which historical circumstances are presupposed or supported by series and serials? How do commercial types of seriality differ from serial structures in other cultural fields?
Media of Serial Narrative focuses on key sites and technologies of popular seriality since the mid-nineteenth century and up to today: newspapers, comics, cinema, television, and digital communication. Paying close attention to the affordances of individual media, as well as to their historical interactions, the fourteen chapters survey the forms, processes, and functions of popular serial storytelling. With individual chapters by Frank Kelleter, Jared Gardner, Daniel Stein, Christina Meyer, Scott Higgins, Shane Denson, Ruth Mayer, Kathleen Loock, Constantine Verevis, Jason Mittell, Sudeep Dasgupta, Sean O’Sullivan, Henry Jenkins, Christine Hämmerling, Mirjam Nast, and Andreas Sudmann, Media of Serial Narrative is an exciting and broad-ranging intervention in the fields of seriality, media, and narrative studies.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814275016
Publisher:	Ohio State University Press
Publication date:	05/05/2017
Series:	THEORY INTERPRETATION NARRATIV
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	312
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

Frank Kelleter is Chair and Einstein Professor of American Cultural History at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at Freie Universitaet Berlin. 

Table of Contents

MEDIA OF SERIAL NARRATIVE Series Editors Title Page Copyright CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION: About This Volume CHAPTER 1: Five Ways of Looking at Popular Seriality: FRANK KELLETER POPULAR SERIES AS EVOLVING NARRATIVES POPULAR SERIES AS NARRATIVES OF RECURSIVE PROGRESSION POPULAR SERIES AS NARRATIVES OF PROLIFERATION POPULAR SERIES AS SELF-OBSERVING SYSTEMS AND ACTOR-NETWORKS POPULAR SERIES AS AGENTS OF CAPITALIST SELF-REFLEXIVITY BIBLIOGRAPHY PART I: Literature and Comics I II III IV V BIBLIOGRAPHY I II III IV BIBLIOGRAPHY INTRODUCTION THE YELLOW KID—SERIAL ENTERTAINMENT? PROLIFERATIONS OF THE YELLOW KID, OR HOW IT WENT VIRAL CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY PART II: Cinema ZORRO AND LARGE-SCALE MEANDERING FLASH AND SMALL-SCALE STRUCTURE EXPOSITION ON THE RUN TRENDS AND VARIATIONS NO TIME FOR TEARS NYOKA, TIME, AND CLIFFHANGER PROBLEM SPACES INTERRUPTION AND VIRTUES OF DISCONTINUITY CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY INTRODUCTION SERIAL FRAMINGS AND THE SPECTRAL INTEGRITY OF THE ICON DRACULA’S MEDIA DIALECTICS THE ICON AS TRANSITIONAL MEDIUM CODA BIBLIOGRAPHY INTRODUCTION: SERIALITY AND FILM REMAKING SERIALITY AND THE HOLLYWOOD FEATURE FILM REMAKING CONSIDERED AS A PRACTICE RATHER THAN A FORM RETROSPECTIVE SERIALIZATION, CINEMATIC SELF-HISTORICIZATION AND SECOND-ORDER OBSERVATION REMAKING IN THE DVD ERA: STORAGE, INTERTEXTUALITY, AND SERIAL CONSUMPTION PLANET OF THE APES AND MEDIA-GENERATIONAL CHANGE CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY CHAPTER 8: New Millennial Remakes: CONSTANTINE VEREVIS NEW MILLENNIAL REMAKES ARE INTERMEDIAL NEW MILLENNIAL REMAKES ARE TRANSNATIONAL NEW MILLENNIAL REMAKES EMBRACE THE POSTAUTEUR NEW MILLENNIAL REMAKES ARE CHARACTERIZED BY PROLIFERATION AND SIMULTANEITY NEW MILLENNIAL REMAKES DO NOT ERASE OR OVERWRITE BUT COEXIST CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY PART III: Television CHAPTER 9: The Ends of Serial Criticism: JASON MITTELL SERIAL REITERATION AND SKYLER’S STORIES: BREAKING BAD AND CHARACTER CHEMISTRY BIBLIOGRAPHY FROM DRILLABLE TEXT TO TEXTUAL BLOCKAGE TELEVISION AS THEORY OPACITY AND THE SERIAL FORM IN TELEVISION OPACITY AND THE EXCESSIVE IMAGE OPACITY IN MAD MEN CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY CHAPTER 11: The Inevitable, the Surprise, and Serial Television: SEAN O’SULLIVAN BIBLIOGRAPHY PART IV: Transmedia and Digitality CHAPTER 12: “All Over the Map”: Building (and Rebuilding) Oz: HENRY JENKINS WORLD-MAKING AND WORLD-SHARING THE PARTICULARITY OF OZ RESTORING OZ BECOMING OZ CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY INTRODUCTION CLASSIC MODES OF SERIAL RECEPTION ALTERNATIVE MODES OF RECEPTION PARALLELS AND DIFFERENCES CENTRAL ISSUES REGARDING THE EFFECT OF MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGICAL DIVERSIFICATION CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY INTRODUCTION LOCATING DIGITAL SERIALITY CONTEXTUALIZING DIGITAL SERIALITY LUDIC SERIALITIES TO BE CONTINUED . . . BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTRIBUTORS INDEX THEORY AND INTERPRETATION OF NARRATIVE: James Phelan, Peter J. Rabinowitz, and Robyn Warhol, Series Editors

Editorial Reviews

Media of Serial Narrative is an important and timely book. … It expands the scope and territory of serial criticism to the realms of cinema and games (Denson and Sudmann), which are not covered by traditional scholarship. … [and] represents a valuable resource for everyone
in media and American studies and interested in popular seriality.” —Gunter Süẞ, Amerikastudien 

“Media of Serial Narrative is a strong collection that adds significantly to our understanding of seriality across media. As a whole, the volume both ranges widely across media and time and also tightly coheres around the history of seriality. I believe Media of Serial Narrative will have real impact in the fields of film, television, literature, comics, and games where there is interest in seriality, and I highly recommend it.” -Greg Smith, author of Beautiful TV: The Art and Argument of Ally McBeal and Film Structure and the Emotion System

“This bouquet of essays assembles the best work of an international collaborative inquiry into how cultures narrate themselves. Once you understand the concept of seriality, the world will never look the same, from mitosis and planetary rotation to comics and television shows. This volume ranges across the variegated forms of popular culture of the last two centuries, casting searchlights into serial nooks and crannies.” —John Durham Peters, author of The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media

“Media of Serial Narrative is a necessary and exciting anthology in any study of contemporary storytelling.” —Linda Williams, author of Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson and On The Wire

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