Narrative Strategies in Television Series

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Notes on the Contributors......Page 10
1 Introduction: Towards a Narratology of TV Series......Page 14
Part I Beyond Realism: Authentifying and Subjectifying Narrative Strategies......Page 58
2 ‘Today is going to be the longest day of my life’: A Narratological Analysis of 24......Page 60
3 Exploring Inner Spaces: Authoritative Narratives and Subjective Worlds in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise......Page 75
4 Animated Cartoons and Other Innovative Forms of Presenting Consciousness on Screen: The German TV Series Berlin, Berlin......Page 93
Part II Multi-layered Characters, Multi-layered Narratives......Page 110
5 ‘She’s filled with secrets’: Hidden Worlds, Embedded Narratives and Character Doubling in Twin Peaks......Page 112
6 ‘This is not happening’: The Multi-layered Ontology of The X-Files......Page 127
7 Life in Doppelgangland: Innovative Character Conception and Alternate Worlds in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel......Page 145
Part III Narrating Gender/Gendering Narratives......Page 164
8 Serial Gossip: Gossip as Theme and Narrative Strategy in Sex and the City......Page 166
9 Ellen Degenarrated: Breaking the Heteronormative Narrative Contract......Page 181
Part IV ReNarrating History......Page 202
10 History and Biography in Die zweite Heimat: Narrative Strategies to Represent the Past......Page 204
11 History: The Sitcom, England: The Theme Park – Blackadder’s Retrovisions as Historiographic Meta-TV......Page 224
F......Page 242
S......Page 243
Z......Page 244