[ecrea] New book: Storytelling in the Media Convergence Age

Storytelling in the Media Convergence Age: Exploring Screen Narratives

Edited by Roberta Pearson and Anthony N. Smith

This collection investigates the relationship between contemporary 
screen narratives and their varied contexts of production, circulation 
and reception, exploring storytelling practices across a range of 
different media and national and institutional sites. While convergence 
and globalisation blur the boundaries between media and nations, it is 
still vital to account for the persistent national, medium, 
institutional and technological specificities that give rise to 
different narrative forms. The chapters study the ways in which these 
factors shape events, characters and settings; inform modes of narrative 
presentation; influence, via paratextual surround, potential 
interpretations; and accord certain stories more value than others. The 
authors use case studies drawn from a range of media, from Hollywood 
franchises to digital comics, and a range of countries, from United 
States to Japan. In connecting contemporary screen media narratives to 
their contexts, this book offers a new perspective on recent 
transformations in screen media culture.

Table of contents:

Introduction: The Contexts of Contemporary Screen Narratives: Medium, 
National, Institutional and Technological Specificities; Anthony N. 
Smith and Roberta Pearson

PART I: PRODUCTION
1. Super Mario Seriality: Nintendo's Narratives and Audience Targeting 
within the Video Game Console Industry; Anthony N. Smith
2. The Muddle Earth Journey: Brand Consistency and Cross-Media 
Intertextuality in Game Adaptation; Claudio Pires Franco
3. Distortions in Spacetime: Emergent Narrative Practices in Comics' 
Transition from Print to Screen; Daniel Merlin Goodbrey
4. Lengthy Interactions with Hideous Men: Walter White and the Serial 
Poetics of Television Antiheroes; Jason Mittell
5. It's a Branded New World: The Influence of State Policy upon 
Contemporary Italian Film Narrative; Gloria Dagnino
6. Memento in Mumbai: 'A Few More Songs and a Lot More Ass Kicking'; 
Iain Robert Smith
7. A Case of Identity: Sherlock, Elementary and Their National 
Broadcasting Systems; Roberta Pearson

PART II: CIRCULATION AND RECEPTION
8. Storyselling and Storykilling: Affirmational/Transformational 
Discourses of Television Narrative; Matt Hills
9. Whistle While You Work: Branding, Critical Reception and Pixar's 
Production Culture; Richard McCulloch
10. Hidden in Plain Sight: UK Promotion, Exhibition and Reception of 
Contemporary French Film Narrative; Cécile Renaud
11. Serial Narrative Exports: US Television Drama in Europe; Alessandro 
Catania
12. Multimedia Muppets: Narrative in 'Ancillary' Franchise Texts; Aaron 
Calbreath-Frasieur

Roberta Pearson is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the 
University of Nottingham, UK. She has published numerous books, book 
chapters and journal articles. These include the the co-authored book 
Star Trek and American Television and the edited collections Reading 
Lost: Perspectives on a Hit Television Show and Many More Lives of the 
Batman.

Anthony N. Smith is Lecturer in Television Theory at the University of 
Salford, UK. His research, which connects media texts to their 
industrial conditions, has been published in Critical Studies in 
Television, Television and New Media and New Media & Society.

Published by Palgrave Macmillan: 
http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/storytelling-in-the-media-convergence-age-roberta-pearson/?K=9781137388148



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