Stories edited by Ian Christie and Annie van den Oever.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oever, Annie, Editor.

Contributor:

Oever, Annie van den, 1957- editor.

Christie, Ian, 1945- editor.

Series:

Key debates ; 7.

Key debates : mutations and appropriations in European film studies ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Storytelling in mass media.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Stories are perceived as central to modern life. Not only in narrative entertainment media, such as television, cinema, theater, but also in social media. Telling/having "a story" is widely deemed essential, in business as well as in social life. Does this mark an intensification of what has always been part of human cultures; or has the realm of "story" expanded to dominate twenty-first century discourse? Addressing stories is an obvious priority for the Key Debates series, and Volume 7, edited by Ian Christie and Annie van den Oever, identifies new phenomena in this field -- complex narration, puzzle films, transmedia storytelling -- as well as new approaches to understanding these, within narratology and bio-cultural studies. Chapters on such extended television series as Twin Peaks, Game of Thrones and Dickensian explore distinctively new forms of screen storytelling in the digital age. With contributions by Vincent Amiel, Jan Baetens, Dominique Chateau, Ian Christie, John Ellis, Miklós Kiss, Eric de Kuyper, Sandra Laugier, Luke McKernan, Jose Moure, Roger Odin, Annie van den Oever, Melanie Schiller, Steven Willemsen, Robert Ziegler.

Contents:

1. Screen narrative in the digital era / Ian Christie and Annie van den Oever

Part I. Theory in contemporary contexts : reassessing key questions. 2. Stories and storytelling in the era of graphic narrative / Jan Baetens

3. Rediscovering iconographic storytelling / Vincent Amiel

4. Wallowing in dissonance : the attractiveness of impossible puzzle films / Miklós Kiss and Steven Willemsen

5. "Storification" : or, What do we want psychology and physiology to tell us about screen stories? / Ian Christie

6. Transmedia storytelling : new practices and audiences / Melanie Schiller

Part II. History and analyses. 7. The endless endings of Michelangelo Antonioni's films / Jose Moure

8. The film that dreams : about David Lynch's Twin Peaks season 3 / Dominique Chateau

9. Spoilers, twists, and dragons : popular narrative after Game of Thrones / Sandra Laugier

Part III. Discussions. 10. Storytelling and mainstream television today : a dialogue / John Ellis and Annie van den Oever

11. The single shot, narration, and creativity in the space of everyday communication / Roger Odin

Part IV. Practicalities. 12. Rewriting Proust : working with Chantal Akerman on La Captive : a dialogue / Eric de Kuyper and Annie van den Oever

13. Introduction to Dickensian : an intertextual universe? / Ian Christie

14. The lives of the characters in Dickensian / Luke McKernan

15. Music structuring narrative : a dialogue / Robert Ziegler and Ian Christie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0https://www.aup.nl/en/publish/open-access

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-70437-9

1-04-078446-1

90-485-3708-8

9781003704379

OCLC:

1054037587

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access