Law and TV Series

The aim of this essay is to analyse TV series from the point of view of philosophical aesthetics. Aiming to show how philosophy may contribute to ＂seriality studies＂, Andrzejewski and Salwa focus on seriality as a factor which defines the structure of TV series, their aesthetic properties, as well as their modes of reception. TV series have been studied within media theory and cultural studies for quite a long time, but they have been approached mainly in terms of their production, distribution, and consumption across various and changing social contexts. Following the agenda of philosophical aesthetics Andrzejewski and Salwa claim instead seriality implies a sort of normativity, i.e. that it is possible to indicate what features a television show has to have in order to be a serial show as well as the manner in which it should be watched if it is to be experienced as a serial work.

Adam Andrzejewski, Ph.D. (1987), University of Warsaw (Poland), is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy at that univrsity. He has published several articles on everyday aesthetics, popular culture, the ontology of art and philosophical methodology. Mateusz Salwa, Ph.D. (1979), University of Warsaw (Poland), is Assistant Professor at the Department of Aesthetics at that university. He has published monographs, translations and articles on various topics ranging from theories of depiction to environmental aesthetics, including Illusion in Painting. An Attempt at Philosophical Interpretation (Peter Lang, 2010).