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This book offers various approaches to understanding the short form in television. The collection is structured in three parts, first engaging with the concept of brevity as inherent to television fiction, before going on to examine how the rapidly-changing landscape of "television" outside traditional networks might adapt this trope to new contexts made accessible by streaming platforms. The final part of the study examines how this short form is inextricable from a larger context, either in its relation to seriality (from the crossover to the "bottle episode") and/or a larger structure, for example in the reception of a larger whole through short but evocative clips in order to better weigh their impact (from "Easter Egg" fan videos to "Analyses of"). The collection concludes with an interview with award-winning screenwriter Vincent Poymiro about his French series En therapie (an adaptation of BeTipul/In Treatment).
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction
Shannon Wells-Lassagne, Sylvaine Bataille and Florence Cabaret
Part 1: Confirming - and Deconstructing - Television Traditions of Brevity
1. Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Subverting Anthology TV Series
Julien Achemchame
2. The Jewel in the Crown: A Miniseries between Short and Long
Florence Cabaret
3. Short Middle Ages: Comic Dramatization of Rhythm in French Shortcom Kaamelott
Justine Breton
4. Short but Serious? Slimming Down the Episode in 'Prestige' Drama Homecoming
Sylvaine Bataille
5. Twin Peaks, 25 Years Later: Whatever Happens Happens Now, and Nothing Else Matters
Benjamin Campion
Part 2: New Media and New Forms: Web-series, Streaming Platforms and the Short Form
6. Orders of Magnitude: Fractality and Granularity in Contemporary Television Series
Florent Favard
7. 'Minute by Minute': Short Form Deriality and Social Viewing and Waiting in SKAM
Sara Tanderup Linkis
8. Narrative Efficiency and the Constraints of the Short Form in Les Engagés
Stéphane Sawas
9. Crisis on Earth X or the Status of the Crossover Event
Claire Cornillon
Part 3: Blurring Boundaries: Production, Paratexts and Reception of the Short Form
10. Loops, Bottles and Clips: Structuring Brevity in American Television
Shannon Wells-Lassagne
11. Ovulate and Repeat: Temporal Uncertainties and the Serialising Effect of Narratives of 'Women's Time' in the Sitcom Friends
Jessica Thrasher
12. 'Spoilers Ahead!': Short-circuiting Complex Series in Explainer Online Videos
Sébastien Lefait
13. Writing En thérapie: A Conversation with Vincent Poymiro
Sylvaine Bataille, Florence Cabaret, and Shannon Wells-Lassagne with Vincent Poymiro
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