[ecrea] CFP: Intensities SI- Transmedia Relationships Between Film/Television and Board Games

_CFP: Intensities SI- Transmedia Relationships Between Film/Television 
and Board Games_

The term ‘transmedia storytelling’ has become a common one in media and 
cultural studies in recent years. Described by Henry Jenkins as stories 
told across multiple media, transmedia storytelling is not just an 
adaptation from one medium to another. Rather,

In the ideal form of TS, each medium does what it does best — so that a 
story might be introduced in a film, expanded through television, 
novels, and comics, and its world might be explored and experienced 
through game play. Each franchise entry needs to be self-contained 
enough to enable autonomous consumption. That is, you don't need to have 
seen the film to enjoy the game and vice-versa. (Jenkins, 2003: online)

Video-games are among the media most frequently cited in discussions of 
transmedia storytelling, and academic analysis of video-games is many 
and varied. In this special issue, however, we turn our analysis to 
board games, and ask how they can be examined through the model of 
transmedia storytelling; what processes of adaptation are at work in 
turning a board game into a film or vice versa; and how do these 
adaptations or transmedia stories affect the ways in which the different 
texts are read and understood.

With this in mind, the journal /Intensities/ will be producing a special 
issue based on these concerns, with the aim of bringing together 
contributors from a range of academic disciplines. We hope to include 
papers which offer a wide range of perspectives on the processes of 
adapting board games to screen and vice versa, from analyses of the 
games themselves, to the responses of audiences to the screen 
adaptations, to the roles the games play in furthering fans’ 
interactions with the text(s). //

We are currently accepting proposals of approximately 300 words in 
length, focusing on any element of the transmedia relationships and 
adaptive processes that occur between film/television and board games. 
The available topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

· How adaptation theory is either applicable or needs rethinking based 
on the nature of the media.

· Comparative case studies between film/television texts that have been 
adapted from board games and games that have their source in 
film/television texts.

· How the adaptive processes from film/television to board games and 
vice versa are inherently different or similar.

· Historical research into the production or industrial development of 
film/television texts or board games based on previously existing 
properties from the other medium.

· The promotion and marketing of such adaptations and how they were 
directed to appeal to the general public.

· The industrial logic and socioeconomic conditions which have deemed 
such texts as potentially profitable.

Please include a short bio of approximately 150 words, and state whether 
you believe your proposal is suited to a full paper of approximately 
7,000 words, or a short paper of approximately 1,500 words. All 
proposals should be sent to (bethanvjones /at/ hotmail.com) 
<mailto:(bethanvjones /at/ hotmail.com)> and (wickscripts /at/ hotmail.com) 
<mailto:(wickscripts /at/ hotmail.com)>, to be received no later than 10 June 
2013.