@incollection{MaederSchwaabNewiak, author = {Maeder, Dominik and Schwaab, Herbert and Newiak, Denis}, title = {Television studies and research on Series: an introduction}, series = {Television Studies and Research on Series: theory, history and present of (post-)televisual seriality}, booktitle = {Television Studies and Research on Series: theory, history and present of (post-)televisual seriality}, editor = {Newiak, Denis and Maeder, Dominik and Schwaab, Herbert}, publisher = {Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden}, address = {Wiesbaden}, isbn = {9783658429140}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-658-42915-7_1}, pages = {1 -- 15}, abstract = {Television series enjoy an unbroken—popular as well as scholarly—attention. It is surprising, however, that in works on seriality in media and cultural studies—referring here primarily on the German context of media studies—, approaches to television studies and television history still play a rather minor role. Yet seriality should always be thought of in terms of television, since the two have always been inextricably interwoven—economically, technically and aesthetically. But what else constitutes the serial in television and how does it change its face in times of digitalization, streaming and interactivity? Is it possible to think of a genuine serial theory of the televisual—and what, in turn, can be learned from this for seriality beyond television? The essays in this volume contribute to shedding new light on the serial as a core principle of television and to providing new impulses for a television theory of the serial on the basis of diverse examples from the current range of television series.}, language = {en} }