The Origins of Transmedia Storytelling in Early Twentieth Century Adaptation by

Description: The Origins of Transmedia Storytelling in Early Twentieth Century Adaptation by Alexis Weedon 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 todays transmedia storytelling. The book explores the contribution of four British authors, household names in their day, who adapted work for film, television and radio. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 todays transmedia storytelling. Modern techniques can be traced back to the early twentieth century when film, radio and television provided professional writers with new formats and revenue streams for their fiction. The book explores the contribution of four British authors, household names in their day, who adapted work for film, television and radio. Although celebrities between the wars, Clemence Dane, G.B. Stern, Hugh Walpole and A.E.W Mason have fallen from view. The popular playwright Dane, witty novelist Stern and raconteur Walpole have been marginalised for being German, Jewish, female or gay and Masons contribution to film has been overlooked also. It argues that these and other vocational authors should be reassessed for their contribution to new media forms of storytelling. The book makes a significant contribution in the fields of media studies, adaptation studies, and the literary middlebrow. Back Cover Impeccably researched and rigorously argued, Weedons book offers a precise historical study of a period and culture when adaptation practices and transmedia storytelling were just beginning to take shape as a fascinating anticipation of the twenty-first century. - Timothy Corrigan , Professor Emeritus of English, Cinema Studies, and History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, USA. 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 todays transmedia storytelling. Modern techniques can be traced back to the early twentieth century when film, radio and television provided professional writers with new formats and revenue streams for their fiction. The book explores the contribution of four British authors, household names in their day, who adapted work for film, television and radio. Although celebrities between the wars, Clemence Dane, G.B. Stern, Hugh Walpole and A.E.W Mason have fallen from view. The popular playwright Dane, witty novelist Stern and raconteur Walpole have been marginalised for being German, Jewish, female or gay and Masons contribution to film has been overlooked also. It argues that these and other vocational authors should be reassessed for their contribution to new media forms of storytelling. The book makes a significant contribution in the fields of media studies, adaptation studies, and the literary middlebrow. Author Biography 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). Table of Contents 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. Feature Moves some of the critically popular frameworks back to their historical origins in the early twentieth century Makes a significant contribution to the area of adaptation studies Goes back to the origins of transmedia storytelling Details ISBN3030724751 Author Alexis Weedon Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 3030724751 ISBN-13 9783030724757 Format Hardcover Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint Springer Nature Switzerland AG Place of Publication Cham Country of Publication Switzerland Edition 1st UK Release Date 2021-06-19 Pages 281 Publication Date 2021-06-19 Illustrations 2 Illustrations, color; 6 Illustrations, black and white; XIX, 281 p. 8 illus., 2 illus. in color. Edition Description 1st ed. 2021 Alternative 9783030724788 DEWEY 823.9109 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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