Thanks, Daniel, great clip&great post to go with it. I'm trying to connect this to Ruth's question, earlier on (regarding her&Shane's Batman post), about parody&irony as potentially destructive forms of serial re-writing/continu ...
Makes perfect sense. In fact, I'm not even sure if there can be such a thing as parodying an entire series if its seriality transcends the level of plot. I would say even Jason's example addresses a particular set of versions within the prolifer ...
Wonderful exchange, thank you all! What emerges for me is the crucial importance of historicizing perspectives on these distinctions (serial/series, figure/character), and not just as an additional interesting way of looking or talking about them but as t ...
A general observation first:I think it's no coincidence that all posts so far for this theme week have been concerned in some way with the question of character. I think this attests to the special role&function of this category in popular serial ...
[oups, something went wrong there... here's the rest of my text again]: Which brings me to my two comments/questions: My cue is Jason's sentence, "viewer memory can run counter to this": (1) Collective memory-creation while the narrat ...
Point taken. The interesting question, in any case, is what is done specifically by specific shows & that's why I like your BB reading & above discussion about objects so much. The David Simon quote about TREME is great (something to wrap ou ...
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What is continued in a serial parody?
What Is Popular Seriality?
Wonderful exchange, thank you
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Point taken. The interesting
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