Special Journal Issue on TV Narrative

The latest issue of The Velvet Light Trap (Number 58,Fall 2006),spotlights film and TV 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.

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• The Lessons of Convergence:Journalist’s Perspective
• Second Life Book Fair
• *A Cunning PLAN
• Cross-Media Interaction Design &Nokia Research Labs
• First Ever Feature Film On the Internet