Ted Nannicelli is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at The University of Queensland. He is editor of Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind,co-editor of Cognitive Media Theory (2014), and author of Appreciating the Art of Television: A Philosophical Perspective.

Héctor J. Pérez is Associate Professor of Audiovisual Narrative at the Universitat Politècnica de València. He has published widely in scientific journals such as Projections, Culture & Psychology, Aisthesis, and L'Atalante. He is editor of SERIES, International Journal of TV Serial Narratives.

1. Introduction: Cognition, Emotion, and Aesthetics in Contemporary Serial Television Part 1. The Nature of Contemporary Televisual Seriality 2. Television's Temporality: Seriality and Temporal Prolongation 3. Multi-plot Structure in Television Serials 4. "Oh My God, They Didn't Kill Kenny": Seriality and Viewer Engagement in Contemporary Animated Television 5. Seriality and Expressiveness in Mad Men Part 2. Audiences 6. From Shots to Storyworlds: The Cognitive Processes Supporting the Comprehension of Serialized Television 7. Beliefs, Desires, and Emotions: A Theory of Emotions and Some Implications for the Understanding of Viewer Reactions to TV Serials Part 3. Poetics 8. Reaching through Time: On Seriality, Temporality, and Twofoldness 9. Five Theses on the Difficulty of Ending Quality TV Series 10. Pop Music in Television Serials: Priming, Authorial Commentary, and Musical Memory 11. Twin Peaks and the Performative Poetics of Complex Television 12. Parallelism and Complex Storytelling in Film and TV Part 4. Value: Aesthetic and Beyond 13. Audiovisual Atmospheres, Moods, and Metaphoric Spaces: Aesthetically Rich Spaces in Complex TV Series 14. Repetition, Familiarity, and Aesthetic Pleasure: Formulaic Generic Television Series 15. Ethics and Bad Protagonists in Serial Television Drama 16. A Sense of Moment: Appreciating Television Serials from Aesthetic and Cognitive Perspectives