MEDIA OF SERIAL NARRATIVE
Series Editors
Title Page
Copyright
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION: About This Volume
CHAPTER 1: Five Ways of Looking at Popular Seriality: FRANK KELLETER
POPULAR SERIES AS EVOLVING NARRATIVES
POPULAR SERIES AS NARRATIVES OF RECURSIVE PROGRESSION
POPULAR SERIES AS NARRATIVES OF PROLIFERATION
POPULAR SERIES AS SELF-OBSERVING SYSTEMS AND ACTOR-NETWORKS
POPULAR SERIES AS AGENTS OF CAPITALIST SELF-REFLEXIVITY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PART I: Literature and Comics
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II
III
IV
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
I
II
III
IV
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INTRODUCTION
THE YELLOW KID—SERIAL ENTERTAINMENT?
PROLIFERATIONS OF THE YELLOW KID, OR HOW IT WENT VIRAL
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PART II: Cinema
ZORRO AND LARGE-SCALE MEANDERING
FLASH AND SMALL-SCALE STRUCTURE
EXPOSITION ON THE RUN
TRENDS AND VARIATIONS
NO TIME FOR TEARS
NYOKA, TIME, AND CLIFFHANGER PROBLEM SPACES
INTERRUPTION AND VIRTUES OF DISCONTINUITY
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INTRODUCTION
SERIAL FRAMINGS AND THE SPECTRAL INTEGRITY OF THE ICON
DRACULA’S MEDIA DIALECTICS
THE ICON AS TRANSITIONAL MEDIUM
CODA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INTRODUCTION: SERIALITY AND FILM REMAKING
SERIALITY AND THE HOLLYWOOD FEATURE FILM
REMAKING CONSIDERED AS A PRACTICE RATHER THAN A FORM
RETROSPECTIVE SERIALIZATION, CINEMATIC SELF-HISTORICIZATION AND SECOND-ORDER OBSERVATION
REMAKING IN THE DVD ERA: STORAGE, INTERTEXTUALITY, AND SERIAL CONSUMPTION
PLANET OF THE APES AND MEDIA-GENERATIONAL CHANGE
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CHAPTER 8: New Millennial Remakes: CONSTANTINE VEREVIS
NEW MILLENNIAL REMAKES ARE INTERMEDIAL
NEW MILLENNIAL REMAKES ARE TRANSNATIONAL
NEW MILLENNIAL REMAKES EMBRACE THE POSTAUTEUR
NEW MILLENNIAL REMAKES ARE CHARACTERIZED BY PROLIFERATION AND SIMULTANEITY
NEW MILLENNIAL REMAKES DO NOT ERASE OR OVERWRITE BUT COEXIST
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PART III: Television
CHAPTER 9: The Ends of Serial Criticism: JASON MITTELL
SERIAL REITERATION AND
SKYLER’S STORIES: BREAKING BAD AND CHARACTER CHEMISTRY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
FROM DRILLABLE TEXT TO TEXTUAL BLOCKAGE
TELEVISION AS THEORY
OPACITY AND THE SERIAL FORM IN TELEVISION
OPACITY AND THE EXCESSIVE IMAGE
OPACITY IN MAD MEN
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CHAPTER 11: The Inevitable, the Surprise, and Serial Television: SEAN O’SULLIVAN
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PART IV: Transmedia and Digitality
CHAPTER 12: “All Over the Map”: Building (and Rebuilding) Oz: HENRY JENKINS
WORLD-MAKING AND WORLD-SHARING
THE PARTICULARITY OF OZ
RESTORING OZ
BECOMING OZ
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INTRODUCTION
CLASSIC MODES OF SERIAL RECEPTION
ALTERNATIVE MODES OF RECEPTION
PARALLELS AND DIFFERENCES
CENTRAL ISSUES REGARDING THE EFFECT OF MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGICAL DIVERSIFICATION
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INTRODUCTION
LOCATING DIGITAL SERIALITY
CONTEXTUALIZING DIGITAL SERIALITY
LUDIC SERIALITIES
TO BE CONTINUED . . .
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
THEORY AND INTERPRETATION OF NARRATIVE: James Phelan, Peter J. Rabinowitz, and Robyn Warhol, Series Editors