Special Journal Issue on TV Narrative
The latest issue of The Velvet Light Trap (Number 58, Fall 2006), spotlights film and TVÂ narrative. There is a wonderful selection of papers with one by Jason Mittell:
- Keating, Patrick. Emotional Curves and Linear Narratives
- Newman, Michael Z. From Beats to Arcs: Toward a Poetics of Television Narrative
- Mittell, Jason. Narrative Complexity in Contemporary American Television
- Kerins, Mark. Narration in the Cinema of Digital Sound
- Lavik, Erlend. Narrative Structure in The Sixth Sense: A New Twist in “Twist Movies”?
- Cameron, Allan. Contingency, Order, and the Modular Narrative: 21 Grams and Irreversible
You can only access the journal through an institution subscription though. But if you can, it will be worth it.