Television Storyworlds as Virtual Space (eBook)

M. King Adkins (Autor)

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2018
170 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498529617 (ISBN)

Infos

This book focuses on television as a form of virtual reality, the most recent in a long evolution of artistic technologies. Drawing on storyworld theory, it examines TV subjects including title sequences, children’s television, science fiction and postapocalyptic programs, and the relationship between television and the postmodern condition.

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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.

Autor

M. King Adkins is associate professor at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 19 Illustrations including: - 19 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Children's media • Credits • Narratology • popular culture • post-apocalyptic • Postmodernism • Storyworld Theory • Television Studies • TV series • Virtual Reality • Worldmaking
• ISBN-13: 9781498529617 / 9781498529617