ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 further fleshes out my theory of television as a transmedial organizational principle of audio-visual texts as it observes the medium's transformations on a textual micro-level, with paratexts revealing the interdependencies and tensions between all televisions. Re-evaluating the concept of paratextuality in the face of audio-visual series, I propose new terminology for the television series” textual fringes. Central to this chapter is a diagrammatic model of the various medial modulations of a serial episode. It shows that any publication context (free and pay TV, catch-up TV and VoD, DVD) simultaneously preserves “traces” of the original broadcast (e.g., fade-to-blacks signifying commercial breaks) and reconfigures the textual tissue of the episode and series (including stingers, bumpers, promos, recaps).
