Narrative Strategies in Television Series

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Towards a Narratology of TV Series

   1. Introduction: Towards a Narratology of TV Series

      • Gaby Allrath, Marion Gymnich, Carola Surkamp

      Pages 1-43

3. Beyond Realism: Authentifying and Subjectifying Narrative Strategies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45

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   2. ‘Today is going to be the longest day of my life’: A Narratological Analysis of 24

      • Elisabeth Birk, Hanne Birk

      Pages 47-61

   3. Exploring Inner Spaces: Authoritative Narratives and Subjective Worlds in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise

      • Marion Gymnich

      Pages 62-79

   4. Animated Cartoons and Other Innovative Forms of Presenting Consciousness on Screen: The German TV Series Berlin, Berlin

      • Carola Surkamp

      Pages 80-95

4. Multi-layered Characters, Multi-layered Narratives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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   2. ‘She’s filled with secrets’: Hidden Worlds, Embedded Narratives and Character Doubling in Twin Peaks

      • Janine Matthees

      Pages 99-113

   3. ‘This is not happening’: The Multi-layered Ontology of The X-Files

      • Klaudia Seibel

      Pages 114-131

   4. Life in Doppelgangland: Innovative Character Conception and Alternate Worlds in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel

      • Gaby Allrath

      Pages 132-150

5. Narrating Gender/Gendering Narratives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151

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   2. Serial Gossip: Gossip as Theme and Narrative Strategy in Sex and the City

      • Esther Fritsch

      Pages 153-167

   3. Ellen Degenarrated: Breaking the Heteronormative Narrative Contract

      • Dirk Schulz

      Pages 168-187

6. (Re)Narrating History

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189

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   2. History and Biography in Die zweite Heimat: Narrative Strategies to Represent the Past

      • Sandra Heinen, Stefan Deines

      Pages 191-210

   3. History: The Sitcom, England: The Theme Park — Blackadder’s Retrovisions as Historiographic Meta-TV

      • Eckart Voigts-Virchow

      Pages 211-228

7. Back Matter

   Pages 229-231

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In the context of a systematic overview of the possibilities of applying narratological concepts to a study of TV series, ten case studies are explored in depth, demonstrating how series such as 24, Buffy, Twin Peaks, Star Trek, Blackadder, and Sex and the City make use of innovative audiovisual means of storytelling. Transgressing the traditional confines of narrative theory, the chapter authors address the question of how form, content, and function intersect in these series.

• Narrative
• space
• television
• media research

• University of Giessen, Germany

  Marion Gymnich

ELISABETH BIRK Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of Linguistics, Aachen, Germany HANNE BIRK is currently working on a Ph.D. on 'remembering' in contemporary novels by Maori (New Zealand), Aborigine (Australia), and First Nations (Canada) authors STEFAN DEINES Teaching and Research Assistant, Philosophy Department, University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany ESTHER FRITSCH Teacher, University of Wuppertal, Germany SANDRA HEINEN is currently working on a doctoral thesis on authorship in English Romanticism. She has written essays concerned with narrative strategies in film, television, and literature and co-edited Krisen des Verstehens um 1800 (2004) JANINE MATTHEES works as Project Manager at a marketing agency DIRK SCHULZ works for gender Inn, an online database for literature on Gender Studies and Women's Studies, and gender forum, an electronic journal and he teaches English/American literature and culture, University of Cologne, Germany KLAUDIA SEIBEL is currently working on her doctoral thesis on hybrid genres in the contemporary British novel CAROLA SURKAMP Lecturer, University of Giessen, Germany, in the Department of Teaching English as a Foreign Language ECKART VOIGTS-VIRCHOW Visiting Professor, University of Vienna, Austria. He has published widely on contemporary drama, film and media studies, and Dennis Potter.

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