Global Convergence Cultures: Transmedia Earth (Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies)

Synopsis

Today’s convergent media industries readily produce stories that span multiple media, telling the tales of superheroes across comics, film and television, inviting audiences to participate in the popular universes across cinema, novels, the Web, and more. This transmedia phenomenon may be a common strategy in Hollywood’s blockbuster fiction factory, tied up with digital marketing and fictional world-building, but transmediality is so much more than global movie franchises. Different cultures around the world are now making new and often far less commercial uses of transmediality, applying this phenomenon to the needs and structures of a nation and re-thinking it in the form of cultural, political and heritage projects. This book offers an exploration of these national and cultural systems of transmediality around the world, showing how national cultures – including politics, people, heritage, traditions, leisure and so on – are informing transmediality in different countries. The book spans four continents and twelve countries, looking across the UK, Spain, Portugal, France, Estonia, USA, Canada, Colombia, Brazil, Japan, India, and Russia.

Copyright:

2018

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781351743204

Related ISBNs:

9781315188478, 9781138732384, 9781138732384

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

03/14/20

Copyrighted By:

Routledge

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies, Communication

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Matthew Freeman

Edited by:

William Proctor