Storytelling Industries

Narrative Production in the 21st Century
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-70596-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3517 g

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. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Anthony N.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Angewandte Informatik Computeranwendungen in Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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. 

Über Autor(innen)

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).