Transmedia Storytelling and the Apocalypse
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Sep 10, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9783319939513
Description: This book confronts the question of why our culture is so fascinated by the apocalypse. It ultimately argues that while many see the post-apocalyptic genre as reflective of contemporary fears, it has actually co-evolved with the transformations in our mediascape to become a perfect vehicle for transmedia storytelling. The post-apocalyptic offers audiences a portal to a fantasy world that is at once strange and familiar, offers a high degree of internal consistency and completeness, and allows for a diversity of stories by different creative teams in the same story world. With case studies of franchises such as 'The Walking Dead' and 'The Terminator', 'Transmedia Storytelling and the Apocalypse' offers analyses of how shifts in media industries and reception cultures have promoted a new kind of open, world-building narrative across film, television, video games, and print. For transmedia scholars and fans of the genre, this book shows how the end of the world is really just the beginning.