Figures of time : affect and the television of preemption /

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Toni Pape examines contemporary television that often presents a conflict-laden conclusion first before relaying the events that led up to that inevitable ending, showing how this narrative structure attunes audiences to the fear-based political doctrine of preemption--a logic that justifies preempt...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pape, Toni, 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Series:Thought in the act.
Subjects:
Television programs > Political aspects > United States.
Television programs > Social aspects > United States.
Television broadcasting > United States > Influence.
Time on television.
Television programs > Plots, themes, etc.
Future, The, in popular culture.
Political culture > United States.
Émissions télévisées > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
Émissions télévisées > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Télévision > États-Unis > Influence.
Temps à la télévision.
Émissions télévisées > Intrigues, thèmes, etc.
Futur dans la culture populaire.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism
Future, The, in popular culture
Political culture
Television broadcasting > Influence
Television programs > Social aspects
Time on television
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The serial machine : toward figures of time
  • Three representations and a figural : Bergsonian variations on metric time, the virtual, and creative becoming
  • Loop into line : the moral command of preemption
  • Damages as procedural television.

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