The Polaroid effect
The virtues of delay in Bettre Call Saul
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2023.vi27.16565Keywords:
Serialized fiction, audiovisual narrative models, textual analysis, Better Call SaulAbstract
This paper proposes a descriptive model that evaluates the enormous diversity of contemporary television fiction as a continuum that opens between the pole of the dominant narrative model characterized by order (whose categorical example would be 24 -Joel Surnow y Robert Cochran, 2001-2010) and its antipode of entropy and disorder (whose paradigm would be Twin Peaks: The Return -David Lynch y Marc Frost, 2017). From there, they focus on Better Call Saul (Vince Gilligan y Peter Gould, 2015-2022), a television series that, located in an equidistant position, combines procedures from both discursive formats with results worthy of a detailed study that these pages undertake.
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