Origins of Transmedia Storytelling in Early Twentieth Century Adaptation

AvAlexis Weedon

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

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. The book explores the contribution of four British authors, household names in their day, who adapted work for film, television and radio.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-06-19
Mått:148 x 210 x 26 mm
Vikt:524 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:281
Upplaga:21001
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030724757

Utforska kategorier

Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Scenkonst och film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Alexis Weedon is a Professor at the University of Bedfordshire, UK, and holds the UNESCO Chair in New Media Forms of the Book. She is author of Victorian Publishing: The Economics of the Book for the Mass Market 1830-1916 (2016), and co-author of Elinor Glyn: Novelist, Businesswoman and Glamour Icon (2014). She also co-edited the new media journal Convergence, as well as several books, including Fiction and The Woman Question 1860-1930 (2020), Developing a Sense of Place (2020), and Retelling Cinderella: Cultural and Creative Transformations (2020).

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Storytellers and the participatory audience.- Chapter 3. Writing across media: the techniques of Clemence Dane.- Chapter 4. Adaptations of Elizabeth I and Shakespeare by Clemence Dane.- Chapter 5. Novelist as a Pierrot: G.B. Stern on women and role-playing identity, etc.