Reading contemporary serial television universes : a narrative ecosystem framework / edited by Paola Brembilla and Ilaria A. De Pascalis.

"Reading Contemporary Serial Television Universes provides a new frameworkthe metaphor of the narrative ecosystemfor the analysis of serial television narratives. Contributors use this metaphor to address the ever-expanding and evolving structure of narratives far beyond their usual spatial and...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Brembilla, Paola, 1985- (Editor), De Pascalis, Ilaria A. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Series:Routledge advances in television studies ; 11.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Theory
  • New paths in transmediality as vast narratives: the state of the field / Matthew Freeman
  • Crossing the boundaries: narrative ecosystems as semiospheres / Marta Boni
  • Evolution in vampire-centered TV ecosystems / Héctor J. Pérez and Fernando Canet
  • Audiences and fan studies: technological communities and their influences on narrative ecosystems / Paul Booth
  • Spin-offs, crossovers, and world building "energies" / Derek Johnson
  • The evolution of characters in TV series: morphology, selection and remarkable cases in narrative ecosystems / Veronica Innocenti and Guglielmo Pescatore
  • pt. 2. Analysis
  • An Italian ecosystem: Gomorra / Ilaria A. De Pascalis
  • Thank god I'm a country series. interacting environments and networks in Nashville / Paola Brembilla
  • "You're Sherlock Holmes, wear the damn hat!": Character identity in a transfiction / Roberta Pearson
  • The specificities of the North-European seriality: strong local voices in a global media-world / Heidi Philipsen
  • 'Event' TV drama within narrative ecosystems: 'extended seriality' and differing paratextual orientations in the 50th anniversaries of cult TV / Matt Hills
  • The game Of Game of thrones: networked concordances and fractal dramaturgy / Andrew Beveridge and Michael Chemers.