Cognition, Emotion, and Aesthetics in Contemporary Serial Television (Hardcover, 1)

1. Introduction: Cognition, Emotion, and Aesthetics in Contemporary Serial TelevisionTed Nannicelli and Hector J. Perez Part 1. The Nature of Contemporary Televisual Seriality 2. Television’s Temporality: Seriality and Temporal ProlongationAlberto Nahum Garcia and Ted Nannicelli 3. Multi-plot Structure in Television SerialsHector J. Perez and Maria Jesus Ortiz 4. “Oh My God, They Didn’t Kill Kenny”: Performance, Seriality and Viewer Engagement in Contemporary Animated TelevisionOliver Kroener 5. Seriality and Expressiveness in Mad MenElliott Logan Part 2. Audiences 6. From Shots to Storyworlds: The Cognitive Processes Supporting the Comprehension of Serialized TelevisionJeffrey E. Saerys-Foy and Joseph Magliano 7. Beliefs, Desires, and Emotions: Some Implications for the Understanding of TV SerialsRainer Reisenzein Part 3. Poetics 8. Reaching through Time: On Seriality, Temporality, and TwofoldnessMurray Smith 9. Five Theses on the Difficulty of Ending Quality TV SerialsMargrethe Bruun Vaage 10. Pop Music in Television Serials: Priming, Authorial Commentary and Musical MemoryBirger Langkjaer 11. Twin Peaks and the Performative Poetics of Complex Television Aaron Taylor 12. Parallelism and Complex Storytelling in Film and TVMalcolm Turvey Part 4. Value: Aesthetic and Beyond 13. Audiovisual Atmospheres, Moods, and Metaphoric Spaces: Aesthetically Rich Spaces in Complex TV SeriesKathrin Fahlenbrach 14. Repetition, Familiarity, and Aesthetic Pleasure: Formulaic Generic Television Series Iris Vidmar, University of Rijeka 15. Ethics and Bad Protagonists in Serial Television DramaCarl Plantinga 16. A Sense of Moment: Appreciating Television Serials from Aesthetic and Cognitive PerspectivesSarah Cardwell