Derided as simple, dismissed as inferior to film, famously
characterized as a vast wasteland, television nonetheless exerts an
undeniable, apparently inescapable power in our culture. The secret
of television's success may well lie in the remarkable narrative
complexities underlying its seeming simplicity, complexities
Kristin Thompson unmasks in this engaging analysis of the narrative
workings of television and film.
After first looking at the narrative techniques the two media
share, Thompson focuses on the specific challenges that series
television presents and the tactics writers have devised to meet
them--tactics that sustain interest and maintain sense across
multiple plots and subplots and in spite of frequent interruptions
as well as weeklong and seasonal breaks. Beyond adapting the
techniques of film, Thompson argues, television has wrought its own
changes in traditional narrative form. Drawing on classics of film
and television, as well as recent and current series like "Buffy
the Vampire Slayer," "The Sopranos," and "The Simpsons," she shows
how adaptations, sequels, series, and sagas have altered
long-standing notions of closure and single authorship. And in a
comparison of David Lynch's "Blue Velvet" and "Twin Peaks," she
asks whether there can be an "art television" comparable to the
more familiar "art cinema."
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