Theorizing Stupid Media

De-Naturalizing Story Structures in the Cinematic, Televisual, and Videogames

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de Aaron Kerner et Julian Hoxter

Type

Essays

Sujet

Sociology

Mots Clés

sociology

Année d'édition

2020

Editeur

Palgrave MacMillan

1ere édition

2019

Langue

anglais

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Format

Paperback • 238 pages
6 x 8 ¼ inches (15 x 21 cm)

ISBN

978-3-030-28178-6

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Description de l'ouvrage:
This book explores the stupid as it manifests in media―the cinema, television and streamed content, and videogames. The stupid is theorized not as a pejorative term but to address media that “fails” to conform to established narrative conventions, often surfacing at evolutionary moments. The Transformers franchise is often dismissed as being stupid because its stylistic vernacular privileges kinetic qualities over conventional narration. Similarly, the stupid is often present in genre fails like mother!, or in instances of narrative dissonance―joyously in Adventure Time; more controversially in Gone Home― where a story “feels off” It also manifests in “ludonarrative dissonance” when gameplay and narrative seemingly run counter to one another in videogames like Undertale and Bioshock. This book is addressed to those interested in media that is quirky, spectacle-driven, or generally hard to place―stupid!

À propos des auteurs :
Aaron Michael Kerner is a Professor in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University, USA. His previous publications include: Extreme Cinema (2016), Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11 (2015), and Film and the Holocaust (2011).Julian Hoxter is an Associate Professor in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University, USA. His previous publications include: Off the Page: Screenwriting in the Era of Media Convergence (2017), Screenwriting (Behind the Silver Screen Series Book 8) (2014). He has published two screenwriting textbooks.

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