@article{Steiner_2015, title={Steering the Author Discourse: The Construction of Authorship in Quality TV, and the Case of Game of Thrones}, volume={1}, url={https://series.unibo.it/article/view/5903}, DOI={10.6092/issn.2421-454X/5903}, abstractNote={This essay examines how the authorship is discursively constructed and employed as an indicator of quality in the marketing of US cable network HBO’s TV series Game of Thrones (2011-). It relates the authorial concept of literary studies to that in the visual media and analyses mise-en-scène and narrative structure of the show pilot in order to detect markers of an authorial voice within the text. Subsequently, it turns to a selection of paratexts – critical reviews, producers’ commentaries and special features of the show’s DVD box set – to show how the team of producers help manufacture and promote the presence of a showrunner-auteur collective in order to foster a perception of this text as a ‘quality TV’ narrative.}, number={2}, journal={Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives}, author={Steiner, Tobias}, year={2015}, month={Jan.}, pages={181} }