The multifaceted change in series production and distribution since the turn of the century has diversified industrial structures and, correspondingly, expanded the scope of commercially viable storytelling. This expansion has introduced variation that has made it difficult to make claims of television series to the extent once possible. This article identifies ‘modes of industrial practice’ as a heuristic for subcategorizing series based on differentiated industrial conditions that better enables the identification of consistent subfields of series.

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美国电视不断扩大的工业实践模式


自世纪之交以来，系列生产和分销的多方面变化使工业结构多样化，相应地扩大了商业上可行的故事讲述的范围。这种扩展引入了变化，使得很难尽可能地声称电视连续剧。本文将“工业实践模式”确定为一种启发式方法，用于根据不同的工业条件对序列进行子分类，从而更好地识别序列的一致子领域。