Narrative Strategies in Television Series

1. Introduction: Towards a Narratology of TV Series
Gaby Allrath, Marion Gymnich, Carola Surkamp

Part I. Beyond Realism: Authentifying and Subjectifying Narrative Strategies

2. ‘Today is going to be the longest day of my life’: A Narratological Analysis of 24
Elisabeth Birk, Hanne Birk

3. Exploring Inner Spaces: Authoritative Narratives and Subjective Worlds in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise
Marion Gymnich

4. Animated Cartoons and Other Innovative Forms of Presenting Consciousness on Screen: The German TV Series Berlin, Berlin
Carola Surkamp

Part II. Multi-layered Characters, Multi-layered Narratives

5. ‘She’s filled with secrets’: Hidden Worlds, Embedded Narratives and Character Doubling in Twin Peaks
Janine Matthees

6. ‘This is not happening’: The Multi-layered Ontology of The X-Files
Klaudia Seibel

7. Life in Doppelgangland: Innovative Character Conception and Alternate Worlds in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
Gaby Allrath

Part III. Narrating Gender/Gendering Narratives

8. Serial Gossip: Gossip as Theme and Narrative Strategy in Sex and the City
Esther Fritsch

9. Ellen Degenarrated: Breaking the Heteronormative Narrative Contract
Dirk Schulz

Part IV. (Re)Narrating History

10. History and Biography in Die zweite Heimat: Narrative Strategies to Represent the Past
Sandra Heinen, Stefan Deines

11. History: The Sitcom, England: The Theme Park — Blackadder’s Retrovisions as Historiographic Meta-TV
Eckart Voigts-Virchow

Nyckelord: Cultural and Media Studies, Film History, Media Studies, Film and Television Studies, Media Research, Literary Theory, Industries