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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (4): 773–776.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Sean O’Sullivan New Books at a Glance
Jason Mittell, Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling. New
York: New York University Press, 2015. x 1 390 pp.
It is safe to say that this is the most anticipated book on television narrative of
the last decade...
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (3): 373–377.
Published: 01 September 2024
... of eulogies for television, deferred. The January 2024 Emmy Awards, delayed for more than four months by overlapping Hollywood industry strikes by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Screen Actors’ Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), inspired a proliferation...
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (3): 497–503.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Irene Tucker; Milette Shamir [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2024 Hagai Levi is one of today's most celebrated and innovative TV creators. Originally from Kibbutz Sha'alvim, and now residing in Tel Aviv, he...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (1): 203–205.
Published: 01 February 2017
...Eyal Segal Fahlenbrach Kathrin , ed., Embodied Metaphors in Film, Television, and Video Games: Cognitive Approaches . New York : Routledge , 2016 . xiii + 300 pp . © 2017 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2017 Reference Lakoff George Johnson Mark...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (3): 395–416.
Published: 01 September 2020
...James Hodkinson This article examines the return of the dead to life in two television drama series of the last decade, Les Revenants ( The Returned ; 2012–15, Canal) and Glitch (2015–19, ABC Studios). The returning dead do not figure as classic undead figures, as ghosts or zombies, instead...
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (2): 299–318.
Published: 01 June 2019
...Anne Ulrich This article aims to shed light on the relation between multimodality and mediality in television. Taking the US TV comedy show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO, 2014–) as an example, it argues that, by mixing a variety of “modal ensembles” (Gunther Kress), the show succeeds...
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (3): 361–388.
Published: 01 September 2013
... (Südwestrundfunk 2010), a German transmedial story system that comprises a TV miniseries, radio plays, fictional web pages, and links to nonfictional texts created independently of the project, the article asks under which conditions an alternate reality game (ARG) could be added to the system without spoiling...
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (3): 379–404.
Published: 01 September 2024
... affordances of the serial television medium. These temporal experiments also elucidate the felt endlessness of waged work in the context of go-nowhere careers. In both capacities, Better Call Saul adumbrates formal and thematic concerns central not only to Breaking Bad , but also to twenty-five years...
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (3): 471–495.
Published: 01 September 2024
... texts, and even related historical events and myth, in light of the new ones. Specifically, the article explores the meanings associated with the public image of Yehoram Gaon, a well-known Israeli actor and singer, and analyzes his performance and role in the award-winning 2010 Israeli television...
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (3): 505–522.
Published: 01 September 2024
... to understanding the culture that produced the original. In this way, this case study contributes to the study of the international circulation of television productions and to the analysis of the tension between international homogenization and local specificities. [email protected]...
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (3): 405–433.
Published: 01 September 2024
... Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and others. This time around, it is weekly televisual and streaming installments that debut the eagerly awaited episodes and seasons of our culture's most influential long-format narratives. Despite any residual disrespect for television/streaming...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (2): 283–304.
Published: 01 June 2004
... after Jaws (in lakes and pools as well as the ocean); uneasiness around clowns, televisions, and trees after Poltergeist ; avoidance of camping and the woods following The Blair Witch Project ; and anxiety when home alone after Scream . More than one-third of the papers reported effects continuing...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (3): 465–495.
Published: 01 September 2004
... by drawing on a wide range of Beckett's work, including major plays,prose, Film , work for television, and critical writings. © 2004 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2004 Adorno, Theodor W. 1981 [1967]: Prisms , translated by Samuel and Shierry Weber(Cambridge: MIT Press...
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (2): 257–279.
Published: 01 June 2005
..., became the primary venue where the narratives and the emotions collected. Its intrinsic democratic character was utilized, and every testimony of emotion or witness was accepted as equally privileged, so a television witness had as much right to feel and express this emotion as an actual witness...
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (2): 183–187.
Published: 01 June 2019
... that until now have attracted comparatively little attention in multimodality studies, including not only multimodal novels, comics, and films but also current television programs, video games, and other forms of digital media. On the other hand, and no less importantly, the articles collected here engage...
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (3): 435–469.
Published: 01 September 2024
... families, including Jewish mothers, in episodic television.” The emergence of new streaming technologies has altered the genres and narrative devices of TV shows and made content about and directed toward narrow, niche audiences more acceptable for production. Several of the comedic Jewish American woman...
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (3): 527–528.
Published: 01 September 2024
... with a creative/critical writing concentration from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in June 2024. Information about her creative and critical work can be found at https://thaismiller.wordpress.com . Anat Sella Inbar is the founder and director of the Television Studies Program at Sapir College...
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Poetics Today (2003) 24 (1): 1–33.
Published: 01 March 2003
... : 343 -48. Kafalenos, Emma 1996 “Implications of Narrative in Painting and Photography,” New Novel Review 3 (2): 53 -64. 2001 “Reading Visual Art, Making—and Forgetting—Fabulas,” Narrative 9 (2): 138 -45. Kozloff, Sarah 1992 “Narrative Theory and Television,” in Allen 1992 : 67...
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (3): 433–458.
Published: 01 September 2005
... of the form ‘‘A is B such that a comparison is suggested between the
two terms leading to a transfer to A of aspects that are more commonly
ascribed to B.1 For example, the metaphoric expression Television is poison
The author thanks Meir Sternberg for his detailed commentary on earlier versions.
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (3): 477–481.
Published: 01 September 2014
..., Television,” contains two studies of adapted serial-
ized works. Martin Zeller-Jacques tackles the problem of “condensing the
vast serialized narratives of superhero comics into a two-hour movie.” Since
most popular superheroes appear in a variety of media — comic books, films,
TV, radio, toys, video...
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