This book shows how the unique characteristics of traditionally differentiated media continue to determine narrative despite the recent digital convergence of media technologies. The author argues that media are now each largely defined by distinctive industrial practices that continue to preserve their identities and condition narrative production. Furthermore, the book demonstrates how a given medium’s variability in institutional and technological contexts influences diverse approaches to storytelling. By connecting US film, television, comic book and video game industries to their popular fictional characters and universes; including
Star Wars, Batman, Game of Thrones and
Grand Theft Auto; the book identifies how differences in industrial practice between media inform narrative production. This book is a must read for students and scholars interested in transmedia storytelling.
Tabella dei contenuti
1. Introduction.- 2. Narratives in the Media Convergence Era: The Industrial Dimensions of Medium Specificity.- 3. Economic Specificity in Narrative Design: the Business of Television Drama Storytelling.- 4. Audience Specificity in Narrative Design: Comic-Book Storytelling in the
Inclusivity Era.- 5. Technological Specificity in Narrative Design:
Story-Driven Videogame Series in an Upgrade Culture.- 6. Conclusion.
Circa l’autore
Anthony N. Smith is Lecturer in Television Theory at the University of Salford, UK. He has published articles in New Media & Society, Television & New Media and Critical Studies in Television, and is also co-editor of Storytelling in the Media Convergence Age: Exploring Screen Narratives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
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