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About Dreams in American Television Narratives

Dreams in Television Narratives is the first comprehensive analysis of one of American television’s most frequently utilized tropes, the dream. From its beginning, television has been a storytelling medium. Whether delivered to a live audience or played out on a sound stage, narratives and those who write them have always been the crux of the television program. While film can claim a long history of scholarly inquiry into the connection between film and dreams, no comprehensive research exists on the subject of television dreams. Locating its primary function as narrative, the author uses examples from American sitcoms and dramatic programs, analyzing the narrative functions of dreams using, as its frame, Carl Jung’s narrative stages of the dream: exposition, development, culmination, and conclusion. While television dreams are analyzed throughout, case studies of the television programs The Sopranos and Buffy the Vampire Slayer are included to show in detail how dreams function throughout a television series. Includes a compendium of over 1000 television episodes that include dreams, a valuable tool for any television scholar or enthusiast.

Table Of Contents

INTRODUCTION

FILM AND DREAMS

FILM DREAMS

FILMING DREAMS

DREAMING FILMS

TELEVISION AND DREAMS

CHAPTER I: DREAMS THAT BEGIN NARRATIVES

CHAPTER II: DREAMS THAT DEVELOP NARRATIVES

CASE STUDY: THE SOPRANOS

CHAPTER III: DREAMS THAT CULMINATE NARRATIVES

CASE STUDY: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

CHAPTER IV: DREAMS THAT END NARRATIVES

CHAPTER V: TELEVISION CRITIQUES ITS DREAMS

POST MORPHEUM

WORKS CITED

APPENDIX: TELEVISION DREAM EPISODES