The Qualities of Complexity: Aesthetic Evaluation in Contemporary Television

15Dec11

This is a busy week for the Popular Seriality group I’m working with here in Göttingen. First, we took over In Media Res for a series of posts about seriality – my own contribution was on Wednesday, focused on Breaking Bad and how it constructs character interiority through serial memory. Head over and join the conversation! […]

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Tags: aesthetics, breaking bad, evaluation, quality television, The Wire

Lost in a Great Story

23Oct07

Update: The book that this essay appears in has been published. Check out Reading Lost: Perspectives on a Hit Television Show, edited by Roberta Pearson (I.B. Tauris, 2009), for a number of great essays on the show… My blogging pace has been slowed lately, in part because of various commitments to teaching, administrative matters, parenting, […]

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Tags: aesthetics, evaluation, Lost, television studies