Audun Engelstad

[Følgende beskrivelse af skribenten er fra 2013 eller tidligere:] Audun Engelstad is born in 1969. Associate professor at Lillehammer University College, head of the Norsk medieforskerlag (2008-2010). His PhD dissertation was entitled Losing Streak Stories: Mapping Norwegian Film Noir (University of Oslo, 2006). He is also the author of Fortelling i film og tv-serier: analyse av dramaturgi og visuell analyse (2004) (Storytelling in Film and TV Series: Narrative and Visual Analysis) and he has contributed to various anthologies and journals on matters relating to his primary research interests: genre studies, in particular film noir and melodrama, adaptation, and storytelling in film and television series.

It’s not TV – or is it?

FEATURE. In accord with HBOs famous slogan “It’s not TV. It’s HBO”, the critically acclaimed series The Sopranos and The Wire have often been disaffiliated with the medium in which they were presented: Television. Audun Engelstad takes issue with this position. He situates The Sopranos and The Wire within the quality television debate before highlighting a number of features of the series that are specifically televisionesque.