Abstract
Hunter addresses the transition from broadcast to Internet-distributed television and its implications for representation and conceptualization of time and space through an analysis of digital aesthetics in Netflix’s Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017–present). The chapter explores digitization’s effect on how television is engaged in the day-to-day and the unique implications this has for how children’s television programming is engaged and understood. The chapter argues that the remediation of television’s ontology from flow to database is reflective of wider shifts in our understandings and experience of time occasioned by the rise of digital technologies and devices that are reflected both in the Netflix interface and in their adaptation of Daniel Handler’s A Series of Unfortunate Events books.
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Hunter, M. (2019). In Medias Res: The Remediation of Time in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. In: Hermansson, C., Zepernick, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Children's Film and Television. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17620-4_4
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