Overview
- Demonstrates how changes unique to each platform connect with the rise of transmedia storytelling
- Attributes the rise of the post-apocalyptic genre to concurrent transformations in the media industry rather than cultural fears
- Advances a new understanding of genre-medium coevolution
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Portal
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Paradigms
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About this book
This book confronts the question of why our culture is so fascinated by the apocalypse. It ultimately argues that while many see the post-apocalyptic genre as reflective of contemporary fears, it has actually co-evolved with the transformations in our mediascape to become a perfect vehicle for transmedia storytelling. The post-apocalyptic offers audiences a portal to a fantasy world that is at once strange and familiar, offers a high degree of internal consistency and completeness, and allows for a diversity of stories by different creative teams in the same story world. With case studies of franchises such as The Walking Dead and The Terminator, Transmedia Storytelling and the Apocalypse offers analyses of how shifts in media industries and reception cultures have promoted a new kind of open, world-building narrative across film, television, video games, and print. For transmedia scholars and fans of the genre, this book shows how the end of the world is reallyjust the beginning…
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Stephen Joyce is Associate Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the author of A River of Han: Eastern Tragedy in a Western Land.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transmedia Storytelling and the Apocalypse
Authors: Stephen Joyce
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93952-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93951-3Published: 10 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06753-3Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93952-0Published: 21 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 220
Topics: Film/TV Industry, Film and TV Production, Film/TV Technology