Third International Conference on Communication & Media Studies

Abstract

The new golden age of television features intricate dramatic TV series with multiple plots, hard themes, nonconventional diegesis, and productions with technical, budgetary, and human (director, cast, producers, screenwriters) resources comparable to mainstream cinematographic productions. Through the analysis of the TV series “Westworld” (HBO, 2016), this paper investigates the context of production and basic aspects of the narrative in order to understand how the creators built its complexity. The analysis uses the Mittell’s studies about TV complexity narrative and Bachelard and Durand’s reflections on imagination. The conclusion is that the complexity in “Westworld” is built, among other strategies, from intricate temporal and spatial conceptions in its diegesis.