Cognitive Impact of Contemporary Television Series

Jesús Jiménez-Varea holds a Master of Science in Theoretical Physics and a PhD in Media and Communication from the Universidad de Sevilla (Spain), where he is an Associate Professor. His works on seriality, comics, vigilantism, violence, and ideology have appeared in international journals and collections.Alberto Hermida is an Associate Professor in Media and Communication from the Universidad de Sevilla (Spain). He holds a PhD in Communication Studies and his main lines of research and teaching are digital image and aesthetics, mise-en-scène in film and television, and seriality.

• List of Tables – Jesús Jiménez-Varea/Alberto Hermida: Introduction – Héctor J. Pérez/Víctor Hernández-Santaolalla: The Cognitive Impact of Television Series: A Preliminary Study – Alberto N. García/Pablo Castrillo: Metaphysical Drama at the Downturn of Peak TV – Beatriz Herráiz Zornoza/Jaime López-Díez: Undone: Representation of Schizophrenia and the Unconscious Mind in an Animated TV Series – Marta Boni: The Awkwardness Effect: Engagement with Clumsy Characters in TV Series – Alberto Hermida/Jesús Jiménez-Varea: Cognition and Emotion in Dystopian TV Serial Worlds: The Purge – Jared Aronoff: Temporal Unity and Discontinuity: Unifying Disparate Narrative Meanings in the Fan Text Chronologically Lost – Mónica Barrientos-Bueno/Pablo Echart: An Overview of Recent Coming-of-Age Serial TV: The Remarkable Aesthetics of The End of the F***ing World – Notes on the Contributors – Index.