NARRATIVES / AESTHETICS / CRITICISM NARRATIVES OF MIAMI IN DEXTER AND BURN NOTICE MYLES MCNUTT Name Dr. Myles McNutt industry, limiting the types of series that are deemed to Academic centre Old Dominion University warrant closer investigation regarding issues of space E-mail address
[email protected] and place and lacking nuanced engagement with place’s relationship with television narrative in particular. After KEYWORDS breaking down the logic under which these discourses Place; space; television; narrative; Breaking Bad; Dexter; Burn function through an investigation of AMC’s Breaking Bad, Notice. this article offers a more rigorous framework for examining how television drama narratives engage with spatial capital ABSTRACT in an age of narrative hybridity. Through a close analysis In popular discourse around television, a series’ relationship of depictions of the city of Miami, the article considers with place is often marked through the suggestion its how two specific narrative strategies—place as narrative setting is “like a character in the show”, but this article backdrop and place as narrative engine—manifest across argues against adopting this as a framework for analyzing both serial and procedural programming, disconnecting television’s relationship with space and place. It articulates spatial capital from its exclusive association with “quality the relationship between this discourse of “spatial capital” television” and building a model for analyzing how place and and hierarchies of cultural capital within the television narrative intersect in the contemporary moment. 73 SERIES VOLUME III, Nº 1, SPRING 2017: 73-86 DOI 10.6092/issn.2421-454X/7147 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TV SERIAL NARRATIVES ISSN 2421-454X LOCATIONS IN TELEVISION DRAMA SERIES NARRATIVE / AESTHETICS / CRITICISM > MYLES MCNUTT NARRATIVES OF MIAMI IN DEXTER AND BURN NOTICE INTRODUCTION the context of dramatic television programming.