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Series and Seriality (Seminar)

Inhalt: Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, The Wire, The Sopranos, The House of Cards – the proliferation of so-called “quality series” since the 1990s, which has gone hand in hand with developments in cable channels, recording devices such as DVDs, streaming media and video online offers, has put a phenomenon into the focus of (popular) cultural studies which has existed since the beginning of mass marketed entertainment in the 19th century: serialisation. The first series were magazines with lurid and sensational subject matter (penny dreadfuls) and the most popular Victorian novelists published in serial form (Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle). Many will remember listening to Bibi Blocksberg on their cassette recorders as children and possibly reading school stories by Enid Blyton; and Harry Potter is the most sensationally famous example of a series of novels (and films) in recent times. Most Lüneburg students will at least be aware (even if not regular viewers) of the telenovela Rote Rosen. This seminar will engage with the history and media of serial entertainment and its different formats, and address theoretical issues related to it, especially its narrative and aesthetic characteristics, questions of audience (input) etc. The seminar as a whole will produce a Wiki on series and seriality with indepth examinations of individual series.