[Commlist] New book: The Origins of Transmedia Storytelling in Early Twentieth Century Adaptation

New book:
The Origins of Transmedia Storytelling in Early Twentieth Century 
Adaptation/

As the blurb says: This book explores the significance of professional 
writers and their role in developing British storytelling in the 1920s 
and 1930s, and their influence on the poetics of today’s transmedia 
storytelling. Modern techniques can be traced back to the early 
twentieth century when film, radio and television provided professional 
writers with new formats and revenue streams for their fiction. The book 
explores the contribution of four British authors, household names in 
their day, who adapted work for film, television and radio. Although 
celebrities between the wars, Clemence Dane, G.B. Stern, Hugh Walpole 
and A.E.W Mason have fallen from view. The popular playwright Dane, 
witty novelist Stern and raconteur Walpole have been marginalised for 
being German, Jewish, female or gay and Mason’s contribution to film has 
been overlooked also. It argues that these and other vocational authors 
should be reassessed for their contribution to new media forms of 
storytelling. The book makes a significant contribution in the fields 
of media studies, adaptation studies, and the literary middlebrow.

It is herehttps://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030724757 
<https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030724757>


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