M. King Adkins

Television Storyworlds as Virtual Space (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Television Storyworlds as Virtual Space examines television as a series of virtual realities viewers enter and explore one episode at a time. Drawing on specific examples, from Westworld to Green Acres, Twin Peaks to Fargo, it illustrates how each of these worlds invites us in, encourages us to move about within it, and constantly pushes against its own boundaries so that its universe continually expands and develops. Specific chapters consider the importance of title sequences in helping us enter these storyworlds, how children's television educates us in using virtual reality, and the centrality of the post-apocalyptic series to the TV landscape. Ultimately, the book situates television as part of an artistic continuum, one that stretches back as far as cave paintings, but that also anticipates the digitally-based virtual reality that lies just on the horizon.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498529617
• Artikelnr.: 53500382

Autorenporträt

By M. King Adkins

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction: TV, A Vast . . . Land Chapter 1. "Where
Everybody Knows Your Name": TV Worlds Chapter 2. "Land Spreadin' Out So Far
and Wide": The TV Medium Chapter 3. "I'm the Map, I'm the Map, I'm the
Map": TV's Storyworld Techniques Chapter 4. "Same Bat Time, Same Bat
Channel": Opening Credits Chapter 5. "Can You Tell Me How to Get, How to
Get to Sesame Street?": Kid's TV and Chapter 6. "To Boldly Go Where No One
Has Gone Before": Reinventing the World Chapter 7. "Walk the Straight and
Narrow Track": Developing Worlds Chapter 8. "These Are Their Stories":
Postmodern Spaces Chapter 9. "Next Time, on Arrested Development": Of TV
Endings Bibliography List of TV Shows Referenced Index About the Author