Storytelling Industries

Narrative Production in the 21st Century

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by Anthony N. Smith

Type

Essays

Subject

Sociology

Keywords

sociology, 21st century, narrative analysis

Publishing date

2018

Publisher

Palgrave MacMillan

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 275 pages
6 x 8 ¼ inches (15 x 21 cm)

ISBN

978-3-319-70596-5

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Book Presentation:
This book shows how the unique characteristics of traditionally differentiated media continue to determine narrative despite the recent digital convergence of media technologies. The author argues that media are now each largely defined by distinctive industrial practices that continue to preserve their identities and condition narrative production. Furthermore, the book demonstrates how a given medium’s variability in institutional and technological contexts influences diverse approaches to storytelling. By connecting US film, television, comic book and video game industries to their popular fictional characters and universes; including Star Wars, Batman, Game of Thrones and Grand Theft Auto; the book identifies how differences in industrial practice between media inform narrative production. This book is a must read for students and scholars interested in transmedia storytelling.

About the Author:
Anthony N. Smith is Lecturer in Television Theory at the University of Salford, UK. He has published articles in New Media & Society, Television & New Media and Critical Studies in Television, and is also co-editor of Storytelling in the Media Convergence Age: Exploring Screen Narratives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

Press Reviews:
"A solid and engaging examination of narrative and medium in the entertainment industries that will appeal to scholars in a wide range of fields related to media studies. This is an ambitious manuscript that accomplishes its goal of discussing the narrative differences between and within serial media in the current entertainment industries. … One of the things that makes this book such a joy to read is the wealth of information provided here." (Jessica Bay, Projections, Vol. 15 (1), 2021)

"This is an impressive study, drawing on significant archival resources, that dazzles with the breadth of knowledge of different fields, … to simplify occasionally." (Elke Weissmann, Critical Studies in Television, Vol. 14(1), 2019)

See the publisher website: Palgrave MacMillan