The origins of transmedia storytelling in early twentieth century adaptation
Authors
Weedon, AlexisAffiliation
University of BedfordshireIssue Date
2021-06-19Subjects
1920s1930s
radio
novel
television
film history
literature
cross-media cooperation
transmedia
modernism
theatre-based research
play
storytelling
Hugh Walpole
Clemence Dane
G.B. Stern
A.E.W. Mason
Subject Categories::P300 Media studies
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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.Citation
Weedon A (2021) 'The origins of transmedia storytelling in early twentieth century adaptation', in (ed(s).). , edn, London: Palgrave Macmillan.Publisher
Palgrave MacmillanAdditional Links
https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030724757Type
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enISBN
97830307247579783030724764
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