Time in Television Narrative

This is presents a fascinating exploration of how shifts in time and storyline create narrative intrigue on television, and its increased use in twenty-first century programming. This collection analyses 21st century American television programs that rely upon temporal and narrative experimentation. [...]
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This is presents a fascinating exploration of how shifts in time and storyline create narrative intrigue on television, and its increased use in twenty-first century programming. This collection analyses 21st century American television programs that rely upon temporal and narrative experimentation. These shows play with time, slowing it down to unfold the 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 essays offer explanations for not only the frequency of time play in contemporary programming, but the implications of its sometimes disorienting presence.