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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• García Martínez, Alberto Nahum

Titel

El espejo roto: La metaficción en las series anglosajonas/The Broken Mirror: Metafiction in Anglosaxon TV Series

Ist Teil von

• Revista latina de comunicación social, 2009, Vol.64 (64), p.654

Ort / Verlag

Tenerife: Laboratorio de Technologías de la Informaciò y Nuevos Análisis, LATINA, de la Universidad de La Laguna

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

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Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article examines how, coming from different aesthetic and generic directions, a representative portion of Anglosaxon television series build up their stories by means of breaking -at different levels- the illusionist mirror that characterizes traditional fiction. In this way, they are -implicitly or explicitly- reflecting on the conventions of Realism. The article begins by exposing some theoretical issues about the concept of metafiction. Featuring examples collected since 2001, there follows cartographic research into all the possibilities that metafictional tv-series can harbor: a manipulative narrator, the juxtaposition of diegetical worlds, television as thematic seed for innovative stories, the hybrid game of self-consciousness and, lastly, the direct appeal to the audience's attention as the major reflective device used by contemporary anglosaxon television series up to now. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]