I was planning to post a review of this new book, Serial Pinboarding in Contemporary Television by Anne Ganzert, but it doesn’t take a load of complicated equations scrawled on a blackboard (and my walls and floors) to work out that books and magazines are arriving quicker than I can read them, so the date at which I would be able to write a review is tending towards ∞.
Anyway, if you’re into crazy walls, and especially if you’re of an academic bent with deep pockets, this book is right up your street. Here’s the blurb:
This book provides an in-depth study of pinboards in contemporary television series and develops the interdisciplinary and innovative concept of Serial Pinboarding. Pinboards are character attributes; they visualize thought processes; are used for conspiracy theories, as murder walls, or for complex cases in any genre. They significantly condition, and are conditioned by, seriality. This book discusses how the pinboards in Castle, Homeland, Flash Forward, and Heroes connect evidence, knowledge, and seriality and how through transmediality and fan practices an “age of pinboarding” has formed. Serial Pinboarding in Contemporary Television will appeal to TV enthusiasts, professionals and researchers, and students of TV and production studies, fan studies, media studies, and art theory.
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