Narrative pleasures in young adult novels, films, and video games
By: Margaret Mackey
Series: Critical approaches to children's literature series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780230293007
Subjects: Motion pictures; Young adult fiction; History and criticism; Media literacy; Narrative Discourse analysis; Rhetoric and psychology; Psychological aspects; Video games; Narration (Rhetoric)
Description: In an era of rapid change, a new understanding is needed of how new and old literacies and literatures iunterrelate - how (and if) do we transfer literate understanding developed in one medium to our processing of another? This fascinating and original new study explores the ways in which we make sense of narrative through an in-depth exploration of the responses of 18-21-year-old interpreters to narratives in book, film and video game format.€Mackey takes their observations and locates them in a theoretical framework that explores the relationships between reading and other forms of media interpretation, in the context of entire stories rather than selected extracts. The result is a dynamic new way of looking at contemporary forms of narrative, and a valuable perspective on changing media formats.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Asking the questions: how we understand stories; title: Beginning: designing the project; title: Thinking it through: theoretical frameworks; title: Paying attention: provisional observations and inferences; title: Entering the fiction: the subjunctive and the deictic centre; title: Orienting: finding the way forward; title: Filling gaps: inferences, closure, and affect linking; title: Making progress or making do: the unconsidered middle; title: Concluding: reaching provisional and final judgments; title: Inhabiting the story: comparative perspectives; title: Understanding narrative interpretation.