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This book offers various approaches to understanding the short form in television. The collection is structured in three parts, first engaging with the concept of brevity as inherent to television fiction, before going on to examine how the rapidly-changing landscape of "television" outside traditional networks might adapt this trope to new contexts made accessible by streaming platforms. The final part of the study examines how this short form is inextricable from a larger context, either in its relation to seriality (from the crossover to the "bottle episode") and/or a larger structure, for example in the reception of a larger whole through short but evocative clips in order to better weigh their impact (from "Easter Egg" fan videos to "Analyses of"). The collection concludes with an interview with award-winning screenwriter Vincent Poymiro about his French series En therapie (an adaptation of BeTipul/In Treatment).
Shannon Wells-Lassagne is a Professor of Film and Television Adaptation in the English Department at the University of Burgundy, France. Sylvaine Bataille is a Lecturer in Literature and Film Studies in the English department at the University of Rouen Normandie Florence Cabaret is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literatures in the English Department at the university of Rouen Normandie
List of FiguresAcknowledgementsNotes on the ContributorsIntroductionShannon Wells-Lassagne, Sylvaine Bataille and Florence CabaretPart 1: Confirming – and Deconstructing – Television Traditions of Brevity1. Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Subverting Anthology TV SeriesJulien Achemchame2. The Jewel in the Crown: A Miniseries between Short and LongFlorence Cabaret3. Short Middle Ages: Comic Dramatization of Rhythm in French Shortcom KaamelottJustine Breton4. Short but Serious? Slimming Down the Episode in ‘Prestige’ Drama HomecomingSylvaine Bataille5. Twin Peaks, 25 Years Later: Whatever Happens Happens Now, and Nothing Else MattersBenjamin Campion Part 2: New Media and New Forms: Web-series, Streaming Platforms and the Short Form6. Orders of Magnitude: Fractality and Granularity in Contemporary Television SeriesFlorent Favard 7. ‘Minute by Minute’: Short Form Deriality and Social Viewing and Waiting in SKAMSara Tanderup Linkis8. Narrative Efficiency and the Constraints of the Short Form in Les EngagésStéphane Sawas9. Crisis on Earth X or the Status of the Crossover EventClaire CornillonPart 3: Blurring Boundaries: Production, Paratexts and Reception of the Short Form10. Loops, Bottles and Clips: Structuring Brevity in American TelevisionShannon Wells-Lassagne11. Ovulate and Repeat: Temporal Uncertainties and the Serialising Effect of Narratives of ‘Women’s Time’ in the Sitcom FriendsJessica Thrasher12. ‘Spoilers Ahead!’: Short-circuiting Complex Series in Explainer Online VideosSébastien Lefait13. Writing En thérapie: A Conversation with Vincent PoymiroSylvaine Bataille, Florence Cabaret, and Shannon Wells-Lassagne with Vincent PoymiroIndex
This rigorous, insightful, and often delightful collection grapples ably with an ongoing and constitutive dialectic of television: series is constituted by episode. Brevity makes possible serial duration. As television undergoes massive, rapid change, this volume carefully tracks those transformations through a series of brilliant, brief analyses. The result? Required reading.
David Scott Diffrient, Kenneth Chan, Colorado State University) Diffrient, David Scott (Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of Northern Colorado) Chan, Kenneth (Professor of English and Film Studies
Daniel Herbert, Constantine Verevis, University of Michigan) Herbert, Daniel (Associate professor, Melbourne) Verevis, Constantine (Associate Professor in Film and Screen Studies, Monash University