Nesterova Evdokiya Antonovna – Candidate in Philology, teaching professor at RANEPA, Moscow
Time is one of the most basic categories of narrative works, because of which its structure may be hidden and usually is not comprehended by the recipient. Series has formed an independent artistic language, a distinctive feature of which is the relationship with time, a special logic of building an end-to-end structure throughout the duration of the project. In the Hannibal series there are no such mainstream games with time as the variability of the timeline, the abundance of flashbacks or the ability to move through time. Using the material of Hannibal, the article analyses how time in the modern TV series turns from a fact into an image, a concept and, finally, into a problematised phenomenon through a variety of artistic techniques.
series; time structure; character time; plot time; Hannibal; Dr Lecter; timeline; mythological time; linear time; ring composition.