Complex Television – Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling

Jason Mittel

In the 1990s, a number of series began appearing in American television productions, defining against decades of established rules of clarity and clarity. Riskier serial projects such as Twin Peaks and The X-Files were not afraid to fool their viewers, cleverly manipulate them and build the elaborate mythology of the entire serial world. They not only encouraged their audiences to be traditionally em edging with the story itself, but also did so in the way they told themselves. In this book, Jason Mittell offers us a detailed analysis of the formal characteristics and special “narrative effects” of complex series thus narrated and the ways in which their audiences understand and work with them. For their analysis, it introduces a number of new terms that respect the specifics of serial television and aspire to become a necessary equipment for professionals, critics and students dedicated to television medium. But the book also contains detailed and readable analyses of a number of TV series such as Veronica Mars, Gingerbread Dad and The Wire – The Grime of Baltimore, and will certainly appeal to enlightened viewers and fans of innovative television storytelling. It is based on the kind contribution of the State Fund of Cinematography.