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Birth of the Binge - Serial TV and the End of Leisure (Hardcover)
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Birth of the Binge - Serial TV and the End of Leisure (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
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Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and the End of Leisure describes and
details serial television and ""binge watching,"" the exceedingly
popular form of contemporary television viewing that has come to
dominance over the past decade. Author Dennis Broe looks at this
practice of media consumption by suggesting that the history of
seriality itself is a continual battleground between a more unified
version of truth-telling and a more fractured form of diversion and
addiction. Serial television is examined for the ways its elements
(multiple characters, defined social location, and season and
series arcs) are used alternately to illustrate a totality or to
fragment social meaning. Broe follows his theoretical points with
detailed illustrations and readings of several TV series in a
variety of genres, including the systemization of work in Big Bang
Theory and Silicon Valley; the social imbrications of Justified;
and the contesting of masculinity in Joss Whedon's Buffy the
Vampire Slayer, Firefly, and Dollhouse. In this monograph, Broe
uses the work of Bernard Stiegler to relate the growth of digital
media to a new phase of capitalism called ""hyperindustrialism,""
analyzing the show Lost as suggestive of the potential as well as
the poverty and limitations of digital life. The author questions
whether, in terms of mode of delivery, commercial studio structure,
and narrative patterns, viewers are experiencing an entirely new
moment or a (hyper)extension of the earlier network era. The
Office, The Larry Sanders Show, and Orange Is the New Black are
examined as examples of, respectively, network, cable, and online
series with structure that is more consistent than disruptive.
Finally, Broe examines three miniseries by J. J. Abrams -
Revolution, Believe, and 11.22.63 - which employ the techniques and
devices of serial television to criticize a rightward,
neo-conservative drift in the American empire, noting that none of
the series were able to endure in an increasingly conservative
climate. The book also functions as a reference work, featuring an
appendix of ""100 Seminal Serial Series"" and a supplementary index
that television fans and media students and scholars will utilize
in and out of the classroom.
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