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Storytelling in the Media Convergence Age : Exploring Screen Narratives

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

Online-Ressource (265 p)

Englisch

Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: The Contexts of Contemporary Screen Narratives: Medium, National, Institutional and Technological Specificities; Part I: Production; 1 Super Mario Seriality: Nintendo's Narratives and Audience Targeting within the Video Game Console Industry; 2 The Muddle Earth Journey: Brand Consistency and Cross-Media Intertextuality in Game Adaptation; 3 Distortions in Spacetime: Emergent Narrative Practices in Comics' Transition from Print to Screen

4 Lengthy Interactions with Hideous Men: Walter White and the Serial Poetics of Television Anti-Heroes5 It's a Branded New World: The Influence of State Policy upon Contemporary Italian Film Narrative; 6 Memento in Mumbai: 'A Few More Songs and a Lot More Ass Kicking'; 7 A Case of Identity: Sherlock, Elementary and Their National Broadcasting Systems; Part II: Circulation and Reception; 8 Storyselling and Storykilling: Affirmational/Transformational Discourses of Television Narrative; 9 Whistle While You Work: Branding, Critical Reception and Pixar's Production Culture

10 Hidden in Plain Sight: UK Promotion, Exhibition and Reception of Contemporary French Film Narrative11 Serial Narrative Exports: US Television Drama in Europe; 12 Multimedia Muppets: Narrative in 'Ancillary' Franchise Texts; Index

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Print version: Storytelling in the Media Convergence Age : Exploring Screen Narratives

978-1-137-38814-8

978-1-137-38814-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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978-1-137-38815-5 ( : 84.82 (NL))

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P96.N35 S86 2015

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