List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction Shannon Wells-Lassagne, Sylvaine Bataille and Florence Cabaret Part 1: Confirming - and Deconstructing - Television Traditions of Brevity 1. Alfred Hitchcock Presents : Subverting Anthology TV Series Julien Achemchame 2. The Jewel in the Crown : A Miniseries between Short and Long Florence Cabaret 3. Short Middle Ages: Comic Dramatization of Rhythm in French Shortcom Kaamelott Justine Breton 4. Short but Serious? Slimming Down the Episode in 'Prestige' Drama Homecoming Sylvaine Bataill e 5. Twin Peaks , 25 Years Later: Whatever Happens Happens Now, and Nothing Else Matters Benjamin Campion Part 2: New Media and New Forms: Web-series, Streaming Platforms and the Short Form 6. Orders of Magnitude: Fractality and Granularity in Contemporary Television Series Florent Favard 7. 'Minute by Minute': Short Form Deriality and Social Viewing and Waiting in SKAM Sara Tanderup Linkis 8.

Narrative Efficiency and the Constraints of the Short Form in Les Engagés Stéphane Sawas 9. Crisis on Earth X or the Status of the Crossover Event Claire Cornillon Part 3: Blurring Boundaries: Production, Paratexts and Reception of the Short Form 10. Loops, Bottles and Clips: Structuring Brevity in American Television Shannon Wells-Lassagne 11. Ovulate and Repeat: Temporal Uncertainties and the Serialising Effect of Narratives of 'Women's Time' in the Sitcom Friends Jessica Thrasher 12. 'Spoilers Ahead!': Short-circuiting Complex Series in Explainer Online Videos Sébastien Lefait 13. Writing En thérapie : A Conversation with Vincent Poymiro Sylvaine Bataille, Florence Cabaret, and Shannon Wells-Lassagne with Vincent Poymiro Index.