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Storytelling in the Media Convergence Age

Exploring Screen Narratives

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  • © 2015

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  1. Roberta Pearson

    1. University of Nottingham, UK

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  2. Anthony N. Smith

    1. University of Salford, UK

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Why do screen narratives remain so different in an age of convergence and globalisation that many think is blurring distinctions? This collection attempts to answer this question using examples drawn from a range of media, from Hollywood franchises to digital comics, and a range of countries, from the United States to Japan

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: The Contexts of Contemporary Screen Narratives: Medium, National, Institutional and Technological Specificities

    1. Introduction: The Contexts of Contemporary Screen Narratives: Medium, National, Institutional and Technological Specificities

      • Anthony N. Smith, Roberta Pearson
      Pages 1-17

  3. Production

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Super Mario Seriality: Nintendo’s Narratives and Audience Targeting within the Video Game Console Industry

      • Anthony N. Smith
      Pages 21-39

    3. The Muddle Earth Journey: Brand Consistency and Cross-Media Intertextuality in Game Adaptation

      • Claudio Pires Franco
      Pages 40-53

    4. Distortions in Spacetime: Emergent Narrative Practices in Comics’ Transition from Print to Screen

      • Daniel Merlin Goodbrey
      Pages 54-73

    5. Lengthy Interactions with Hideous Men: Walter White and the Serial Poetics of Television Anti-Heroes

      • Jason Mittell
      Pages 74-92

    6. It’s a Branded New World: The Influence of State Policy upon Contemporary Italian Film Narrative

      • Gloria Dagnino
      Pages 93-107

    7. Memento in Mumbai: ‘A Few More Songs and a Lot More Ass Kicking’

      • Iain Robert Smith
      Pages 108-121

    8. A Case of Identity: Sherlock, Elementary and Their National Broadcasting Systems

      • Roberta Pearson
      Pages 122-148

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 238-252
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Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Nottingham, UK

    Roberta Pearson

  • University of Salford, UK

    Anthony N. Smith

About the editors

Alessandro Catania, University of Nottingham, UK Aaron Calbreath-Frasieur, University of Nottingham, UK Gloria Dagnino, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland Claudio Pires Franco, University of Bedfordshire, UK Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, University of Hertfordshire, UK Matt Hills, Aberystwyth University, UK Richard McCulloch, Regent's University London, UK Jason Mittell, Middlebury College, USA Roberta Pearson, University of Nottingham Cécile Renaud, University of Roehampton, London, UK Anthony N. Smith, University of Nottingham, UK Iain Robert Smith, University of Roehampton, London, UK

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