El Text audiovisual: anàlisi des d'una perspectiva mediològica

Abstract

Analysis of audiovisual texts from a mediological perspective is a study of five American series: The West Wing, NBC, 1999-2006; Lost, ABC, 2004 to the present; Desperate Housewives, ABC, 2004 to the present; House, Fox, 2004 to the present, and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CBS, 2000 to the present. The dissertation focuses on the production contexts of these series and their overall characteristics and thematic invariants. The research approach is structured according to a syncretic methodology. Insights from Lévi-Strauss, 1969; Dumézil, 1973; Ginzburg, 2003, and Nagy, 2006, are applied to a specific genre (thus providing a diachronic perspective) and to the presence and renewal of myth through thematic recurrence (giving a synchronic perspective). Continuity of thematic recurrence in these series is the hypothesis underlying the research. The influence on the series of various television eras is also studied.