世新大學圖書館

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: television studies in the twenty-first century -- Promoting the future of experimental tv: the industry changes and technological advancements that pavedthe way to "new" television ventures. Television's paradigm (time)shift: production and consumption practicesin the post-network era / Todd M. Sodano -- "A stretch of time": extended distribution and narrative accumulation inPrison break / J. P. Kelly -- "It's not unknown": the loose- and dead-end afterlives of Battlestar Galactica andLost / Jordan Lavender-Smith -- Zero-degree seriality: television narrative in the post-network era / Norman M. Gendelman -- "Play it again, Sam -- and Dean": temporalityand meta-textuality in Supernatural / Michael Fuchs -- Historicizing the moment: how the cultural climate impacts. Temporal manipulation on the small screen. Temporality and trauma in American sci-fi television / Aris Mousoutzanis -- The fear of the future and the pain of the past: the quest to cheat time in Heroes, FlashForward, and Fringe / Melissa Ames -- Lost in our middle hour: faith, fate, and redemption post-9/11 / SarahHimsel Burcon -- "New beginnings only lead to painful ends": "undeading" and fear of consequences in Pushing daisies / Kasey Butcher -- The functions of time: analyzing the effects of nonnormative narrative structure(s). "Did you get pears?": temporality and temps mortality in The wire, Mad men, and Arrested development /Gry C. Rustad and Timotheus Vermeulen -- Temporalities on collision course: time, knowledge, and temporal critique in Damages / Toni Pape -- Freaks of time: reevaluating memory and identity through Daniel Knauf's Carnivale / Frida Beckman -- The discourse of medium: time as a narrative device / Kristi McDuffie -- Moving beyond the televisual restraints of the past: reimagining genres and formats. Making sense of the future: narrative destabilization in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse / Casey J. McCormick -- Why 30 Rock rocks and The Office needs some work: the role of ti

Explores how shifts in time and storyline create narrative intrigue on television, and its increased use in twenty-first century programming. This title explains the frequency of time play in contemporary programming, and the implications of its sometimes disorienting presence.