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Book SynopsisThe rapid development of the TV series in the twenty-first century has resulted in an emergence of new aesthetic, cultural, and social trends. The development has influenced both the mainstream of popular culture and reception practices of audiences across nations and platforms. This book observes how the means employed in key contemporary TV series texts and a specific thematic variety have promoted new reception styles and redefined conventional interpretive practices. The authors analyze a variety of series released since 2000 to discuss historical (dis)continuities of genres and conventions, and observe how interpretive competences promoted by the rhetoric of contemporary TV series result from, and are polemical with, the conventions of visual and verbal cultures of preceding decades.
Table of ContentsAesthetics, Themes, and Reception of 21st-century TV series. Subject matters discussed: Narrative Conventions and Experimentation; Visual Complexity and the Spectacle; Seriality and the Segmented Experience of Narrative; Representations of Female Identity, Representation of Race and Ethnicity, Dystopian Futures and (Not Too) Fictional Presents: Living the Covid-19 Pandemic; Reader/Viewer and the Text; Watching is the New Reading: Defining Reader’s Competences; Multimodal TV Series
