From Inside Out, From Outside In: theoretical figurations of authorship and style in television serials poetics

Abstract

I intend to evaluate different ways of thinking about the relationship between the concepts of “style” and “authorship”, in the field of studies on serial television fiction — as they involve different derived heuristics, sometimes from sociological theories about the field of cultural production, sometimes from the dynamics proper to the relationship between finished works and probabilistic horizons of aesthetic enjoyment and appreciation, arising from poetic approaches on the subject. In an effort to qualify these conceptual correlations in these approaches (sociological and poetic), I aim to better clarify the employment of these categories, in favour of a better delimitation between the dynamics presiding over each of these perspectives — either valuing social and competitive environments of the attribution of authorship, in contrast to cooperative matrices of stipulation of the style, as professional dynamics. inflection of reception and predominantly aesthetic phenomenon.

Keywords authorship; style; television serial fiction