Narrative Television and COVID-19: Maintaining the Hegemony of the “Normal”
Jared Aronoff
Mar
2025
Figure 1. The Bear makes occasional reference to the economic impact of the pandemic on the food service industry, but only ever in passing.
The Bear s02e07 (still). Author’s screenshot.
Jared Aronoff is a PhD student in Film Studies at Concordia University’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. Jared’s Master’s research considered the aesthetics of “bad” cinema and the language used to describe this mode in a scholarly context. Jared’s proposed PhD research will consider serial temporality in popular television series. In addition to co-leading a disability studies reading group through the Raah lab at Concordia, Jared is also part of a local mask bloc distributing resources and information related to COVID-19 within Montreal.