Law and TV Series

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-38787-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 74 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 118 g

Reihe: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Art and Law

The aim of this essay is to analyse TV series from the point of view of philosophical aesthetics. Aiming to show how philosophy may contribute to “seriality studies”, Andrzejewski and Salwa focus on seriality as a factor which defines the structure of TV series, their aesthetic properties, as well as their modes of reception. TV series have been studied within media theory and cultural studies for quite a long time, but they have been approached mainly in terms of their production, distribution, and consumption across various and changing social contexts. Following the agenda of philosophical aesthetics Andrzejewski and Salwa claim instead seriality implies a sort of normativity, i.e. that it is possible to indicate what features a television show has to have in order to be a serial show as well as the manner in which it should be watched if it is to be experienced as a serial work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Andrzejewski, Adam

Salwa, Mateusz

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Beziehungen des Rechts zu anderen Disziplinen
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio TV-Drama
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Law and TV Series

Adam Andrzejewski and Mateusz Salwa

Abstract

Keywords

1 Introduction: Law, TV Series and Aesthetics

2 Seriality in Art and Culture

3 Authority, Norms, and Categories

4 Qualities and Complexities of Television

5 Everything Is Connected: The Relations between Episodes

6 The Aesthetics of Watching

7 Conclusion

Bibliography

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Über Autor(innen)

Adam Andrzejewski, Ph.D. (1987), University of Warsaw (Poland), is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy at that univrsity. He has published several articles on everyday aesthetics, popular culture, the ontology of art and philosophical methodology.

Mateusz Salwa, Ph.D. (1979), University of Warsaw (Poland), is Assistant Professor at the Department of Aesthetics at that university. He has published monographs, translations and articles on various topics ranging from theories of depiction to environmental aesthetics, including Illusion in Painting. An Attempt at Philosophical Interpretation (Peter Lang, 2010).