期刊名称：Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives
印刷版ISSN：2421-454X
出版年度：2021
卷号：7
期号：1
DOI：10.6092/issn.2421-454X/11539
语种：English
出版社：Dipartimento delle Arti - Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
摘要：This paper makes a case for how scholarship on popular film and television can potentially be inspired by the methodological writings of intellectual historian Quentin Skinner. While Skinner’s approach is canonical in the field of intellectual history, his thoughts on textual analysis have rarely been applied to material other than philosophical treatises and that article shows that Skinner’s thoughts on texts are applicable to studying television serials. The paper further suggests that intellectual historian Mikkel Thorup’s work is useful for pondering the challenges of contextualist readings of television serials and that Skinner and Thorup’s work provide useful ways of analyzing how politically charged television serials like those of David Simon take issue with discursive and social realities in an American context.
