Bücher von Barbara Miceli

The rapid development of the TV series in the twenty-first century has resulted in an emergence of new aesthetic, cultural, and social trends. The development has influenced both the mainstream of popular culture and reception practices of audiences across nations and platforms. This book observes how the means employed in key contemporary TV series texts and a specific thematic variety have promoted new reception styles and redefined conventional interpretive practices. The authors analyze a variety of series released since 2000 to discuss historical (dis)continuities of genres and conventions, and observe how interpretive competences promoted by the rhetoric of contemporary TV series result from, and are polemical with, the conventions of visual and verbal cultures of preceding decades.

The study analyzes the factual and fictional elements in three novels by Joyce Carol Oates. The innovative genre used, which separates itself from previous similar forms of fact writing, aims to give a new voice to females who died in mysterious circumstances, and to provide a criticism of contemporary American society and its treatment of women.