In the 1980s, Eco questioned the innovation processes in serial products through an approach that it is still current today. It proposes alternative models to traditionally creativity forms. The aim of the paper is to investigate narrative recycling as central process within the audiovisual serial production considering several TV series belonging to the medical drama genre. Specifically the analysis focuses on Grey’s Anatomy (ABC, 2005-), Saving Hope (CTV, 2012-2017), The Night Sfhift (NBC, 2014-2017), Chicago Med (NBC, 2015-) and The Good Doctor (ABC, 2017-). We have identified three different levels of narrative recycling. The first level consists of gender conventions, the second one by the use of “motifs” and stylization processes, while the third one works on transformative copies. We will shown how in audiovisual serial products the cultural innovation processes is not due mainly to creativity exercise but rather to continuous mechanisms of narrative replication and recycling.
Medical dramas: forme di riciclo narrativo nella produzione audiovisiva seriale
Marta Rocchi
2020
Abstract
In the 1980s, Eco questioned the innovation processes in serial products through an approach that it is still current today. It proposes alternative models to traditionally creativity forms. The aim of the paper is to investigate narrative recycling as central process within the audiovisual serial production considering several TV series belonging to the medical drama genre. Specifically the analysis focuses on Grey’s Anatomy (ABC, 2005-), Saving Hope (CTV, 2012-2017), The Night Sfhift (NBC, 2014-2017), Chicago Med (NBC, 2015-) and The Good Doctor (ABC, 2017-). We have identified three different levels of narrative recycling. The first level consists of gender conventions, the second one by the use of “motifs” and stylization processes, while the third one works on transformative copies. We will shown how in audiovisual serial products the cultural innovation processes is not due mainly to creativity exercise but rather to continuous mechanisms of narrative replication and recycling.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
