Description: Focuses on television fictions as short forms rather than expansive narratives, and how this relates to their seriality.
Brief description: Shannon Wells-Lassagne is a Professor of Film and Television Adaptation in the English Department at the University of Burgundy, France.
Review Quotes: This rigorous, insightful, and often delightful collection grapples ably with an ongoing and constitutive dialectic of television: series is constituted by episode. Brevity makes possible serial duration. As television undergoes massive, rapid change, this volume carefully tracks those transformations through a series of brilliant, brief analyses. The result? Required reading.-- "Samuel A. Chambers, Johns Hopkins University"