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  "There are eight million stories in the naked city; this has been one of them": Procedurality and The Naked City

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  gwijthoff

  March 11, 2010

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  "There are eight million stories in the naked city; this has been one of them": Procedurality and The Naked City 1940s adaptation cinema dassin Film Noir media theory procedurality procedure seriality serials telegraph telephone Curator's N ...
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  That Soothing Balm of Latent Discontent: MAD MEN Unstresses the 21st Century

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  Frank Kelleter Göttingen University (Germany)

  December 12, 2011

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  That Soothing Balm of Latent Discontent: MAD MEN Unstresses the 21st Century television series seriality Popular Seriality Mad Men Curator's Note MAD MEN is part of a larger group of popular series that share a competitive interest in televisual &quo ...
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  Serial Characterization and Inferred Interiority

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  December 14, 2011

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  Serial Characterization and Inferred Interiority seriality Popular Seriality interiority character Breaking Bad Curator's Note One great challenge facing moving image media is portraying a character’s interior thoughts and emotions. While literature ...
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  Plurimediality and the Serial Figure

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  Ruth Mayer & Shane Denson Leibniz University of Hannover

  December 13, 2011

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  Plurimediality and the Serial Figure seriality serial figure Popular Seriality plurimediality Batman Curator's Note The serial figure, as we call it, is not merely a character in a series; rather, it exists as a series – across a variety of media, sh ...