Masters of someone else’s domain: narrative and style in Seinfeld
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Seinfeld, Narrative, StyleAbstract
The paper analyzes the TV show Seinfeld and its breaking with the genre conventions historically constructed on american television. To this end, our analysis points out two dimensions of program aesthetics: the narrative and the stylistic ones. From the narrative aesthetics point of view, we indicated a break with the goal oriented dramatic model (or the “Aristotelian model”, hegemonic in the television of such period). From a stylistic point of view, we consider how the increasing adoption of unusual production practices led to the formation of a hybrid between the multi-camera sitcom and the single camera programs.Downloads
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