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This introduction outlines the book’s overarching aim to map connections between narratives and a given medium’s fluid production conditions, contextualising this objective within the fields of narrative theory and media industry studies. It furthermore summarises the approach of each of the book’s main case study chapters.
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See Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (New York: New York University Press, 2006); Graham Meikle and Sherman Young, Media Convergence: Networked Digital Media in Everyday Life (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); Michael Latzer, ‘Media Convergence’, in Handbook on the Digital Creative Economy, ed. Ruth Towse and Christian Handke (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2013), 123–133.
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Ruth Page and Bronwen Thomas, ‘Introduction’, in New Narratives: Stories and Storytelling in the Digital Age, ed. Ruth Page and Bronwen Thomas (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011), 7.
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Henry Jenkins popularised the term ‘transmedia storytelling’; for a detailed definition for the term see Henry Jenkins, ‘Transmedia 202: Further Reflections’, Confessions of an Aca-Fan, 1 August 2011, http://henryjenkins.org/2011/08/defining_transmedia_further_re.html.
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Jenkins, Convergence Culture; Colin Harvey, Fantastic Transmedia: Narrative, Play and Memory Across Science Fiction and Fantasy Storyworlds (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015); Martin Flanagan, Mike McKenney and Andy Livingstone, The Marvel Studios Phenomenon: Inside a Transmedia Universe (New York: Bloomsbury, 2015).
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See Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan, ‘How the Model Neglects the Medium: Linguistics, Language, and the Crisis for Narratology’, The Journal of Narrative Technique 19, No. 1 (1989), 157–166; Marie-Laure Ryan, ‘Introduction’, in Narrative across Media: The Languages of Storytelling, ed. Marie-Laure Ryan (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004), 1–40; Marie-Laure Ryan, Avatars of Story (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006), 3–30; David Herman, ‘Towards a Transmedial Narratology’, in Narrative across Media, ed. Ryan, 47–75; Mark J. P. Wolf, Building Imaginary Worlds: The Theory and History of Subcreation (New York: Routledge, 2012), 245–267; Marie-Laure Ryan, ‘Story/Worlds/Media: Turning the Instruments of Media-Conscious Narratology’, in Storyworlds Across Media: Towards a Media-Conscious Narratology, ed. Marie-Laure Ryan and Jan-Noël Thon (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014), 25–49; Jan-Noël Thon, Transmedial Narratology and Contemporary Media Culture (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016).
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Rimmon-Kenan, ‘How the Model Neglects the Medium’, 160.
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See Ryan, Avatars of Story, 18–21; Ryan, ‘Story/Worlds/Media’, 29–30.
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See Ryan, Avatars of Story, 23–25; Ryan, ‘Story/Worlds/Media’, 30.
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Helen Fulton, introduction to Narrative and Media, by Helen Fulton, with Rosemary Huisman, Julian Murphet and Anne Dunn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 3–4.
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David Bordwell, ‘Historical Poetics of Cinema’, in The Cinematic Text: Methods and Approaches, ed. R. Barton Palmer (New York: AMS, 1989), 369–398.
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Trisha Dunleavy, Television Drama: Form, Agency, Innovation (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009); Jeremy G. Butler, Television Style (New York: Routledge, 2010); Jason Mittell, Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling (New York: New York University Press, 2015). Earlier examples of books that adhere to this approach include: Barry Salt, Film Style and Technology: History and Analysis (London: Starward, 1983); David Bordwell, Janet Staiger and Kristin Thompson, The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985).
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See David Hesmondhalgh, The Cultural Industries, second edition (Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2007), 23.
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See Roger Hagedorn, ‘Technology and Economic Exploitation: The Serial as a Form of Narrative Presentation’, Wide Angle 10 (1988), 12.
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Smith, A.N. (2018). Introduction. In: Storytelling Industries. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70597-2_1
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