The DVD Novel: How the Way We Watch Television Changed the Television We Watch
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (664 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0313385815 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 231 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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meme said An Excellent Popular Culture Companion. "The DVD Novel" explores the intersection and evolution of popular media and storytelling traditions (e.g., short form versus long form). As articulated so well within this book, "The result has been a change in the way that almost all television fiction is written but also the development of new strategies of complexity and depth and literary qualities that were not previously available on American television." "The DVD Novel" engages both academician and student in examining "the narrative" in its evolving televised forms and formats. I highly recommend this lively book as an important complement to any study of popular culture and a. kgh57 said Smart, funny and essential. Greg Metcalf managed a neat trick with his new book: he writes a scholarly book that even the non-academic will enjoy. His book is written in plain English. Even better, it's smart and funny. Metcalf helped me understand the television I watch in an entirely new way. In the process, he has added several programs to my viewing list. Metcalf writes in a way that doesn't condescend to the medium or to the reader. His book was a pleasure to read.
This book examines how this significant shift in storytelling occurred.. Now that television shows can live forever as DVD sets, the stories they can tell have changed; television episodes are now crafted as chapters in a season-long novel instead of free-standing stories
Greg Metcalf, PhD, is an artist and a scholar who teaches film, television, literature, modern art history, cultural history, popular culture, American humor, and sculpture at the University of Maryland, College Park, and art history at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
"Greg Metcalf's conceptualization is current, if not cutting edge; the research exhaustive; and the writing refreshing, smart, and engaging. Metcalf makes fascinating connections throughout, deftly weaving historical, technological, commercial and creative contexts. The book, and Metcalf's casually brilliant narrative, have broad appeal from the academic sphere to the popular intelligentsia to the casual TV episode devotee." (George Plasketes, Professor of Radio-Television-Film, Communication and Journalism, Auburn University)