From the Why Theory podcast: “On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss the bottle episode form of television in the context of Ryan’s recent article, ‘The Limitation of the Bottle Episode: Hegel and Community.’ After establishing the historical and economic conditions that led to the initial development of the bottle episode, Ryan and Todd articulate how the form mobilizes temporal and spatial constraints as a way of stoking existential conflict within and between characters. Ultimately they show how the constraints that cohere the bottle episode move its narrative toward the space of dialectical contradiction.”
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