Seriality in the contemporary 'long-term television narrative' (2001-2010): Remediation and migration of the serial.

This project focuses on the new contemporary form of the cumulative TV serial (or long-term television narrative, as David Lavery calls it), which is characterized by its narrative complexity (see Jason Mittell). First of all I will respond to Mittells call to examine the structure of these complex narratives through formal narratology. Secondly, a historical contextualization will lay the emphasis on the transmedial migration of this type of serial, from literature over cinema, radio and comics to television, and back again. Thirdly, I will approach the long-term TV narrative from the perspective of new media as a vast narrative (see Pat Harrigan & Noah Wardrip-Fruin), which manifests itself in a cross-medial environment where tie-ins are no longer subordinate to one canonical text but form elements of an elaborate fictional quilt in a convergence culture (see Henry Jenkins).

Keywords:Long-term television narrative, Remediation, Narrative complexity, Transmedialization

Disciplines:Communication sciences, Journalism and professional writing, Media studies, Other media and communications