Building complexity TV series: the diegetic conception of Westworld

The new golden age of television features mainly by intricate dramatic TV series with multiple plots, hard themes, nonconventional diegesis, and productions with technical, budgetary and human (director, cast, producers, screenwriters) resources comparable to mainstream cinematographic productions....

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Autor: Anaz, Sílvio Antonio Luiz
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:Brasil
Institución:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Repositorio:Revista FAMECOS: Mídia cultura e tecnologia
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/28492
Acceso en línea:https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/revistafamecos/article/view/28492
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Complexity narrative
TV series
Westworld
Complejidad narrativa
Serie de la televisión
Narrativa complexa
série de TV
Série de TV
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Sumario:The new golden age of television features mainly by intricate dramatic TV series with multiple plots, hard themes, nonconventional diegesis, and productions with technical, budgetary and human (director, cast, producers, screenwriters) resources comparable to mainstream cinematographic productions. Through the analysis of TV series Westworld (HBO, 2016) this paper investigates the context of production and basic aspects of the narrative in order to understand how the creators built its complexity. The analysis uses the Mittell’s studies about TV complexity narrative and Bachelard and Durand’s reflections on imagination. The conclusion is that the complexity in Westworld is built, among other strategies, from intricate temporal and spatial conceptions in its diegesis.