The origins of transmedia storytelling in early twentieth century adaptation / Alexis Weedon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weedon, Alexis, author.

Contributor:

John, Ruth, and Sally Ruth MacCorkell Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley), 1865-1948.

Walpole, Hugh, 1884-1941.

Stern, G. B. (Gladys Bronwyn), 1890-1973.

Dane, Clemence.

Adaptations.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Authors, English--20th century.

Authors, English.

Storytelling in mass media.

Digital storytelling.

Dane, Clemence--Adaptations.

Stern, G. B. (Gladys Bronwyn), 1890-1973--Adaptations.

Stern, G. B.

Walpole, Hugh, 1884-1941--Adaptations.

Walpole, Hugh.

Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley), 1865-1948--Adaptations.

Mason, A. E. W.

Genre:

Adaptations.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xix, 281 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland AG, [2021]

Summary:

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 today's 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 Mason's 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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction

2. Storytellers and the Participatory Audience

3. Writing Across Media: the Techniques of Clemence Dane

4. Adaptations of Elizabeth I and Shakespeare by Clemence Dane

5. Novelist as a Pierrot: G.B. Stern on Women and Role-Playing Identity

6. Race and Migration in Fiction, on Stage and Film: G.B. Stern

7. Live Radio and Film Dialogue: Hugh Walpole's Creation of Fictional Friends

8. A Story in Pictures: A.E.W. Mason's Film Writing

9. A Collaborative Radio Serial with Clemence Dane and Hugh Walpole

10. Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John, Ruth, and Sally Ruth MacCorkell Fund.

Other Format:

Online version:

ISBN:

9783030724757

3030724751

OCLC:

1255872464

Publisher Number:

99988936355