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Concept TV
An Aesthetics of Television Series
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2021
Summary
What is a television series? A widespread answer takes it to be a totality of episodes and seasons. Luca Bandirali and Enrico Terrone argue against this characterization. In Concept TV: An Aesthetics of Television Series, they contend that television series are concepts that manifest themselves through episodes and seasons, just as works of conceptual art can manifest themselves through installations or performances. In this sense, a television series is a conceptual narrative, a principle of construction of similar narratives. While the film viewer directly appreciates a narrative made of images and sounds, the TV viewer relies on images and sounds to grasp the conceptual narrative that they express. Here lies the key difference between television and film. Reflecting on this difference paves the way for an aesthetics of television series that makes room for their alleged prolixity, their tendency to repetition, and their lack of narrative closure. Bandirali and Terrone shed light on the specific ways in which television series are evaluated, arguing that some apparent flaws of them are, indeed, aesthetic merits when considered from a conceptual perspective. Hence, to maximize the aesthetic value of television series, one should not assess them in the same framework in which films are assessed but rather in a distinct conceptual framework.
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Copyright year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-9756-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-9757-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
124
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Contents No access
List of Figures No access
List of Figures No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 4
Television Series as Megamovies No access
The Vast Amount of Time No access
The Norms of Audiovisual Narrative No access
The Clash between Norms and Time No access
Filling Strategies No access
Two Alternative Conclusions No access
Video Art, Film, Television No access
Arguing for the Conceptual Hypothesis No access
Television Series as Conceptual Narratives No access
Ontology and Evaluation No access
The Components of Conceptual Narratives No access
The Normativity of Conceptual Narratives No access
The Evaluation of Conceptual Narratives No access
Approaches to Evaluation No access
Modes of Conceptual Narratives No access
Conceptual Metanarratives No access
Serialized Series No access
Serialized Characters No access
Conclusion: Rethinking Television Series No access
