“I’m Not Always the Most Reliable Narrator”. On Character Voice-Over as a Rhetorical Resource in HBO’s “Euphoria”
Voice-over narration features in various ways in contemporary TV series. One recent series that employs voice-over extensively is HBO’s Euphoria. In the series, the protagonist, Rue, narrates repeatedly in each episode of the first season and critics have labelled her voice-over with terms such as “...
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| description | Voice-over narration features in various ways in contemporary TV series. One recent series that employs voice-over extensively is HBO’s Euphoria. In the series, the protagonist, Rue, narrates repeatedly in each episode of the first season and critics have labelled her voice-over with terms such as “unreliable” or “omniscient”. The aim of this article is to analyze the uses of character voice-over in Euphoria and to argue that such analysis require examining the theoretical terminology often applied to film and TV voice-overs. The article argues that character voice-over should not be defined based on a structuralist narratological conception of the narrator. Rather, voice-over should be approached within a framework of narrative rhetoric and viewed as a medium-specific rhetorical resource. The proposed view, as opposed to one classifying different types of voice-over narrators, is better able to explain how voice-over works in serial storytelling and how this resource is employed in Euphoria to create different effects and affect the audience in different ways. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f771ab4f5aba4c618215f1281df52c2b2022-12-22T02:09:06ZengUniversity of BolognaSeries. International journal of tv serial narratives2421-454X2022-08-0181051610.6092/issn.2421-454X/1365711979“I’m Not Always the Most Reliable Narrator”. On Character Voice-Over as a Rhetorical Resource in HBO’s “Euphoria”Roger Edholm0Mid Sweden UniversityVoice-over narration features in various ways in contemporary TV series. One recent series that employs voice-over extensively is HBO’s Euphoria. In the series, the protagonist, Rue, narrates repeatedly in each episode of the first season and critics have labelled her voice-over with terms such as “unreliable” or “omniscient”. The aim of this article is to analyze the uses of character voice-over in Euphoria and to argue that such analysis require examining the theoretical terminology often applied to film and TV voice-overs. The article argues that character voice-over should not be defined based on a structuralist narratological conception of the narrator. Rather, voice-over should be approached within a framework of narrative rhetoric and viewed as a medium-specific rhetorical resource. The proposed view, as opposed to one classifying different types of voice-over narrators, is better able to explain how voice-over works in serial storytelling and how this resource is employed in Euphoria to create different effects and affect the audience in different ways.https://series.unibo.it/article/view/13657voice-overnarrator rhetorical resourcesserialityeuphoria |
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