This collection analyzes twenty-first-century American
television programs that employ temporal and narrative
experimentation. These shows play with time, slowing it down to
unfold narrative through time retardation and compression. They
disrupt the chronological flow of time itself, using flashbacks and
insisting that viewers be able to situate themselves in both the
present and the past narrative threads. Although temporal play has
existed on the small screen prior to the new millennium, never
before has narrative time been so freely adapted in mainstream
television. The essayists offer explanations for not only the
frequency of time-play in contemporary programming, but also the
implications of its sometimes disorienting presence.
Drawing upon the fields of cultural studies, television
scholarship, and literary studies, as well as overarching theories
concerning postmodernity and narratology, "Time in Television
Narrative" offers some critical suggestions. The increasing number
of television programs concerned with time may stem from any and
all of the following: recent scientific approaches to quantum
physics and temporality; new conceptions of history and post
history; or trends in late-capitalistic production and consumption,
in the new culture of instantaneity, or in the recent trauma
culture amplified after the September 11 attacks. In short, these
televisual time experiments may very well be an aesthetic response
to the climate from which they derive. These essays analyze both
ends of this continuum and also attend to another crucial variable:
the television viewer watching this new temporal play.
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