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USA TV series postdrama: Poetics and composition

Abstract:

The magnitude of the (post)dramatic changes that have been taking place in American audiovisual fiction only happen every several hundred years. The goal of this research work is to highlight the features of the change occurring within the organisational (post)dramatic realm of American serial television. The transition from an essentially “dramatic” model to a postdramatic composition/parataxis urges us to analyse the new organisation of American television series and their main features.The fundamental changes of this new constellation are significant in the organisational realm of (post)drama; the sense of the composition yields its preponderance to juxtaposition; and composition and parataxis try to venture the order of chaos by giving more importance to dramatic communication and tension. The study is based on the comparative analysis of contemporary American post-drama and its conceptual deconstruction based on the dramatic model (and its precedents in the Spanish Baroque).