Lorenz Engell

neo-series 

1 limitation in time

- from Brazilian telenovella informed American inception in the 1990s in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks (season 1)

Effects:

explicitly heading towards an end in time

making time an explicit part of the dram

contrast between acceleration and delay

Indefinite number of episodes can be inserted —> time scales can become variable

2 Transformation - 

Exemplified by Twin Peaks’ Character Dale Cooper as an Avatar of Evil

Tranformation of characters and images themselves smooth the transition between the episodes in a series

3 improvisation as transformatiom

Based upon work and conepts by Deleuze, John Fiske, Gunther Anders, Stanley Cavell

Examples: flash Forward, Breaking Bad, CSI, Twin Peaks, 24, Ally MacBeal