The script as a Charge: examining dialogue dramaturgy in The Newsroom and True Dete
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Dramaturgy, dialogue, style, television serial fictionAbstract
I propose an analysis of the dramaturgy of works of television serial fiction, conceived as a “Charge” it establishes for the staging of these formats—employing this very notion in line with what Michael Baxandall characterizes as “patterns of intention” of historical objects. Articulating the dramaturgical conception to the poetic profile of these works, I adopt David Bordwell’s and Jeremy G. Butler’s standpoints, to infer what the instance of staging of these works suggests about the specific role of the art of the script. As a testing ground, I analyze the dramaturgy of dialogue, in segments
of episodes from two contemporary works in this field (Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom, and Nic Pizzolatto’s True Detective): in both cases I seek to understand artistic matrices in which the composition of the voices of agents assign styles of staging, as well as the dramaturgical functions of the composition of the characters’ lines, in each of them.
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