Storytelling in the media convergence age
Subtitle: exploring screen narratives
By: edited by Roberta Pearson, University of Nottingham, UK ; Anthony N. Smith, University of Salford, UK
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781137388148
Subjects: Narration (Rhetoric); Storytelling in mass media; Convergence (Telecommunication)
Description: This collection investigates the relationship between contemporary screen narratives and their varied contexts of production, circulation and reception, exploring storytelling practices across a range of different media and national and institutional sites. While convergence and globalisation blur the boundaries between media and nations, it is still vital to account for the persistent national, medium, institutional and technological specificities that give rise to different narrative forms. The chapters study the ways in which these factors shape events, characters and settings; inform modes of narrative presentation; influence, via paratextual surround, potential interpretations; and accord certain stories more value than others. The authors use case studies drawn from a range of media, from Hollywood franchises to digital comics, and a range of countries, from United States to Japan. In connecting contemporary screen media narratives to their contexts, this book offers a new perspective on recent transformations in screen media culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Production. Anthony N. Smith: Super Mario seriality: Nintendo's narratives and audience targeting within the video game console industry; title: Claudio Pires Franco: The muddle earth journey: brand consistency and cross-media intertextuality in game adaptation; title: Daniel Merlin Goodbrey: Distortions in spacetime: emergent narrative practices in comics' transition from print to screen; title: Jason Mittell: Lengthy interactions with hideous men: Walter White and the serial poetics of television antiheroes; title: Gloria Dagnino: It's a branded new world: the influence of state policy upon contemporary Italian film narrative; title: Iain Robert Smith: Memento in Mumbai: a few more songs and a lot more ass kicking; title: Roberta Pearson: A case of identity: Sherlock, elementary and their national broadcasting systems; title: Circulation and reception.  Matt Hills: Storyselling and storykilling: affirmational/transformational discourses of television narrative; title: Richard McCulloch: Whistle while you work: branding, critical reception and Pixar's production culture; title: Cécile Renaud: Hidden in plain sight: UK promotion, exhibition and reception of contemporary French film narrative; title: Alessandro Catania: Serial narrative exports: US television drama in Europe; title: Aaron Calbreath-Frasieur: Multimedia Muppets: narrative in "ancillary" franchise texts.