
Brevity and the Short Form in Serial Television
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Content
- Intro
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part 1 Confirming - and Deconstructing - Television Traditions of Brevity
- 1 Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Subverting Anthology TV Series
- 2 The Jewel in the Crown: A Miniseries between Short and Long
- 3 Short Middle Ages: Comic Dramatisation of Rhythm in French Shortcom Kaamelott
- 4 Short but Serious? Slimming Down the Episode in 'Prestige' Drama Homecoming
- 5 Twin Peaks, 25 Years Later: Whatever Happens Happens Now, and Nothing Else Matters
- Part 2 New Media and New Forms: Web-series, Streaming Platforms and the Short Form
- 6 Orders of Magnitude: Fractality and Granularity in Contemporary Television Series
- 7 'Minute by Minute': Short Form Seriality and Social Viewing and Waiting in SKAM
- 8 Narrative Efficiency and the Constraints of the Short Form in Les Engagés
- 9 Crisis on Earth-X or the Status of the Crossover Event
- Part 3 Blurring Boundaries: Production, Paratexts and Reception of the Short Form
- 10 Loops, Bottles and Clips: Structuring Brevity in American Television
- 11 Ovulate and Repeat: Temporal Uncertainties and the Serialising Effect of Narratives of 'Women's Time' in the Sitcom Friends
- 12 'Spoilers Ahead!': Short-circuiting Complex Series in Explainer Online Videos
- 13 Writing En thérapie: A Conversation with Vincent Poymiro
- Index
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