Storytelling in Film and Television (inbunden)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
192
Utgivningsdatum
2003-06-01
Utmärkelser
Nominated for Katherine Singer Kovcs Book Award 2004
Förlag
Harvard University Press
Illustrationer
4 halftones, 5 tables
Dimensioner
206 x 140 x 14 mm
Vikt
247 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
xiii, 172 p. :
ISBN
9780674010871

Storytelling in Film and Television

av Kristin Thompson
Häftad,  Engelska, 2003-06-01
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Derided as simple, dismissed as inferior to film, famously characterized as a vast wasteland, television nonetheless exerts an undeniable, apparently inescapable power in our culture. The secret of television's success may well lie in the remarkable narrative complexities underlying its seeming simplicity, complexities Kristin Thompson unmasks in this engaging analysis of the narrative workings of television and film. After first looking at the narrative techniques the two media share, Thompson focuses on the specific challenges that series television presents and the tactics writers have devised to meet them--tactics that sustain interest and maintain sense across multiple plots and subplots and in spite of frequent interruptions as well as weeklong and seasonal breaks. Beyond adapting the techniques of film, Thompson argues, television has wrought its own changes in traditional narrative form. Drawing on classics of film and television, as well as recent and current series like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Sopranos, and The Simpsons, she shows how adaptations, sequels, series, and sagas have altered long-standing notions of closure and single authorship. And in a comparison of David Lynch's Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks, she asks whether there can be an "art television" comparable to the more familiar "art cinema."
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Remarkably little work (scholarly or otherwise) has been done on television. These four essays provide what may be the most cogent and systematic study of the subject currently available. Thompson is an extremely solid writer with a keen intellect and exceptional analytical skills, and all of these qualities are in evidence here. Simply stated, there is at present no book quite like this one, despite the pressing need for such a book. -- Thomas Schatz, Professor of Radio, Television & Film, University of Texas at Austin I quite enjoyed reading this book. What I like most about it is its interdisciplinary approach. It shows the insights that an intellectually mature media scholar can have when she crosses disciplinary boundaries--applying analytical principles of one medium to another. I feel strongly that this sort of work should be encouraged. -- Jeremy Butler, Professor of Telecommunications and Film, University of Alabama

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Kristin Thompson is an honorary fellow in the Communication Arts Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface 1. Go with the Flow? Analyzing Television 2. What Do They Think They're Doing? Theory and Practice in Screenwriting 3. The Dispersal of Narrative: Adaptations, Sequels, Serials, Spin-offs, and Sagas 4. The Strange Cases of David Lynch Notes Index

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