Television Storyworlds as Virtual Space

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Television Storyworlds as Virtual Space examines television as a series of virtual realities viewers enter and explore one episode at a time. Drawing on specific examples, from Westworld to Green Acres, Twin Peaks to Fargo, it illustrates how each of these worlds invites us in, encourages us to move about within it, and constantly pushes against its own boundaries so that its universe continually expands and develops. Specific chapters consider the importance of title sequences in helping us enter these storyworlds, how children’s television educates us in using virtual reality, and the centrality of the post-apocalyptic series to the TV landscape. Ultimately, the book situates television as part of an artistic continuum, one that stretches back as far as cave paintings, but that also anticipates the digitally-based virtual reality that lies just on the horizon.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2018-09-15
Mått158 x 231 x 17 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor170
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498529600

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AcknowledgementsIntroduction: TV, A Vast . . . LandChapter 1. “Where Everybody Knows Your Name”: TV Worlds Chapter 2. “Land Spreadin’ Out So Far and Wide”: The TV MediumChapter 3. “I’m the Map, I’m the Map, I’m the Map”: TV’s Storyworld TechniquesChapter 4. “Same Bat Time, Same Bat Channel”: Opening CreditsChapter 5. “Can You Tell Me How to Get, How to Get to Sesame Street?”: Kid’s TV and Chapter 6. “To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before”: Reinventing the WorldChapter 7. “Walk the Straight and Narrow Track”: Developing WorldsChapter 8. “These Are Their Stories”: Postmodern SpacesChapter 9. “Next Time, on Arrested Development”: Of TV EndingsBibliographyList of TV Shows ReferencedIndexAbout the Author

In summary, this work offers a dive into the heart of the semiotic structure of series and helps to understand the different solutions and techniques that not only allow the creation of attractive narrative possible worlds, but also attract the viewer and retain him in the world of the series for as long as possible. This book is therefore an opportunity to better understand the great contemporary success of series, which appear as devices for creating worlds at the center of the attention of audiences, occupying the place formerly held by other media or narrative forms, such as literature, cinema, advertising. [Translated from original French]