The origins of contemporary serial drama

Using as base methodological and conceptual contributions of the Philosophy of Drama, this paper seeks to investigate the origin of contemporary serial drama. To do so, it offers a diachronic reflection on the constitution of drama as a television genre, whose transformations serve as a landmark to...

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Published inMatrizes Vol. 9; no. 1; p. 127
Main Author Silva, Marcel Vieira Barreto
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Universidade de São Paulo 23.06.2015
Subjects
dramatic structures
philosophy of drama
Serial dramaturgy
television series
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Summary:Using as base methodological and conceptual contributions of the Philosophy of Drama, this paper seeks to investigate the origin of contemporary serial drama. To do so, it offers a diachronic reflection on the constitution of drama as a television genre, whose transformations serve as a landmark to think about the formal immanence of contemporary drama. With this, it intends to demonstrate that it is in the dialectical relation among micro-structures (beat and episode) and macro-structures (arch and season) of television series that relies its dominant characteristic.
ISSN:1982-2073
1982-8160
DOI:10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v9i1p127-143