Tv-serien som vor tids roman?
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Mad Men
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Jakob Isak Nielsen: "Tv-serien som vor tids roman?"AbstractJakob Isak Nielsen: “The TV Series as the Novel of our Time?”In recent years contemporary TV series – particularly American one-hour drama series such as The Sopranos (HBO, 1999-2007), The Wire (HBO, 2002-2008) and Mad Men (AMC, 2007-) – have often been likened to many of the canonic works within the history of the novel. This article discusses the validity of this hypothesis byhighlighting a number of similarities between the two art forms before ultimately demonstrating how they differ from each other and how they are best understood as products of particular media-systemic circumstances.