Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Mittell, Jason

Titel

Comprehension

Ist Teil von

• Complex TV, 2015, p.164

Ort / Verlag

United States: NYU Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Viewers engage with a television series through a wide range of practices, as detailed throughout this book. But at the most basic level, nearly all viewing starts with the core act of comprehension, making sense of what is happening within a episode. This might seem obvious, and certainly much of television storytelling aims to make comprehension easy, invisible, and automatic. However, complex television has increased the medium’s tolerance for viewers to be confused, encouraging them to pay attention and put the pieces together themselves to comprehend the narrative. While television rarely features an avant- garde level of abstraction or ambiguity,