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Watching the Watchers : = Contemporary Television, Complex Seriality, and Media Literacy.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Watching the Watchers :/
Reminder of title:	Contemporary Television, Complex Seriality, and Media Literacy.
Author:	Berland, Nicole.
Description:	1 online resource (215 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-11A.
Subject:	Film studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30421341click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798379555702

Watching the Watchers : = Contemporary Television, Complex Seriality, and Media Literacy.
Berland, Nicole.

Watching the Watchers :Contemporary Television, Complex Seriality, and Media Literacy. - 1 online resource (215 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-11, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

Narrative seriality dominates the twenty-first century mediascape, and nowhere is this more apparent than in television, where audiences have on-demand access to hundreds of thousands of unique series. Approaching seriality through the lens of contemporary television programming, this dissertation, Watching the Watchers: Contemporary Television, Complex Seriality, and Media Literacy, joins the growing body of interdisciplinary research on the affordances, limitations, causes, and implications of the serial form in American culture. More precisely, it treats the contemporary television series as a cipher through which it identifies and interprets how series negotiate the contours of their formal identity with its viewers. The dissertation opens with a deep genealogy of television seriality, in which it excavates and interprets the economic, technological, and cultural origins of contemporary television storytelling practices. From there, it moves into two case studies, analyzing the ways in which Westworld and Watchmen speak to the tendency of contemporary television series to theorize their own narrational forms. Where foundational texts in seriality studies have already established the innate reflexivity of all narrative series, this dissertation locates within Westworld a newer trend in "complex" television, which it calls metaseriality, that thematizes the processes by which series stage conversations between contemporary and past expressions of seriality; current series and their serial contemporaries; and the serial form and its audiences. Then, in its chapter on Watchmen, the dissertation explores what it means to watch a series that is simultaneously watching its audiences. Coding the multi-generational inheritance of trauma as a symptom of narrative, cultural, and genetic seriality, Watchmen attempts to remediate that trauma through experiments in narrative form. Finally, this dissertation turns toward the pragmatic goal of developing a critical pedagogy of television seriality. Without targeted instruction in formal and media literacy, consumers become unwitting students of the commercial logic of seriality. Watching the Watchers addresses the urgent demand for such a pedagogy by providing the rationale and resources necessary to support instructors in the creation of courses or units on television seriality.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798379555702Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122736
Film studies.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Cultural studiesIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

Watching the Watchers : = Contemporary Television, Complex Seriality, and Media Literacy.
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