[ecrea] Conference CFP: The Fantastic in a Transmedia Era: New Theories, Texts, Contexts

  The Fantastic in a Transmedia Era: New Theories, Texts, Contexts

*/Tuesday 24 /**/November and /**/Wednesday 25 /**/November/**/ 2015/*

*/International two-day conference at the University of Southern
Denmark, SDU/*

The fantastic is today’s most popular and significant genre in
entertainment media. Among its developments are George R.R. Martin’s
fantasy book series /A Song of Ice and Fire/ and its HBO adapted series
/Game of Thrones/; the /Hunger Games/ film series based on Suzanne
Collins' books; /The Walking Dead/ in comics and television; the new
Disney princesses in /Brave /and /Frozen/; the rebooted superheroes
emerging in games, comics, and film series; religious-themed stories in
blockbuster cinema; among games are LOL and WOW. The fantastic has
reached new audiences and achieved mainstream status.

Fantastic genres include fantasy, science fiction, horror, and the fairy
tale, and today’s transmedia storytelling generates new versions, hybrid
forms, and new audience engagements. Multiple media platforms and
participatory audiences call for new theorizations of the fantastic as
it expands, transforms, and migrates across media, be they grand cinemas
or intimate cell phones. This raises questions about medium specificity:
what does the fantastic look and feel like in different media and how do
stories--affectively and aesthetically--behave when changing form? What
significant developments demand our attention, from mash-up narratives
to TV genre hybrids? How do audiences engage with the fantastic across
media? How does the increase of female authors and female characters
influence the fantastic? And, finally, the relation between imagination
and the fantastic calls for re-conceptualization: Is the fantastic
conservative or subversive, or can its appeal be explained by other factors?


For more about keynotes and speakers, see the conference site here:

http://sdu.dk/en/Om_SDU/Institutter_centre/Ikv/Konferencer/Konferencer+2015/The+Fantastic

For questions contact: (thefantastic /at/ sdu.dk) <mailto:(thefantastic /at/ sdu.dk)>

Rikke Schubart
Associate Professor, Rikke Schubart
Institute for the Study of Culture
University of Southern Denmark
Campusvej 55, 5230, Odense M, Denmark
(schubart /at/ sdu.dk) <mailto:(schubart /at/ sdu.dk)>
mobile: +45 28737293
twitter.com/rikkeschubart <https://twitter.com/rikkeschubart>


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