Arrested Development and the future of television series

Authors

  • Marcel Vieira Barreto Silva Universidade Federal da Paraíba

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-7714.no.2014.83583

Keywords:

Arrested Development, Netflix, Serial fiction, Streaming

Abstract

This is a story about a TV series that was abruptly cancelled and about the streaming service that brought it from the ashes. Arrested Development was a TV series exhibited between 2003 and 2006 by FOX channel, an open TV channel, and that has been recognized for investing in narrative and stylistic strategies that are unusual in sitcoms, as a more realistic staging and metafictional dramatic arch. The cancellation of the series provoked bustle in the fans, who stayed years dreaming about its return on online communities and networks. Netflix made the dream come true, brought back the series and put on the agenda the future of serial audiovisual fiction. The aim of this paper is to show how the narrative structure of the new season has amplified the synchronic fruition of television to the diachronic manipulation of history, usual to the internet. This is Arrested Development. 

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Author Biography

  • Marcel Vieira Barreto Silva, Universidade Federal da Paraíba

    Professor Adjunto do Departamento de Comunicação e do Programa de Pós-graduação em Comunicação da Universidade Federal da Paraíba. Mestre e Doutor em Comunicação pela Universidade Federal Fluminense. Autor de “Adaptação Intercultural: o caso de Shakespeare no cinema brasileiro” (EDUFBA, 2013), e artigos e capítulos de livros sobre narrativa, dramaturgia e ficção seriada.
    E-mail: marcelvbs@hotmail.com.

Published

2014-08-09

Issue

Section

ARTICLES

How to Cite

Arrested Development and the future of television series. (2014). Novos Olhares, 3(1), 42-50. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-7714.no.2014.83583