Transmedia practices in the long nineteenth century
by Meyer, Christina Pietrzak-Franger, Monika
"This volume provides engaging accounts with transmedia practices in the long nineteenth century and offers model analyses of Victorian media (e.g., theater, advertising, books, games, newspapers) alongside the technological, economic, and cultural conditions under which they emerged in the Anglophone world. By exploring engagement tactics and forms of audience participation, the book affords insight into the role that social agents - e.g., individual authors, publishing houses, theatre show pr…
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- Full title :Transmedia practices in the long nineteenth century / edited by Christina Meyer and Monika Pietrzak-Franger.
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"This volume provides engaging accounts with transmedia practices in the long nineteenth century and offers model analyses of Victorian media (e.g., theater, advertising, books, games, newspapers) alongside the technological, economic, and cultural conditions under which they emerged in the Anglophone world. By exploring engagement tactics and forms of audience participation, the book affords insight into the role that social agents - e.g., individual authors, publishing houses, theatre show producers, lithograph companies, toy manufacturers, newspaper syndicates, or advertisers - played in the production, distribution, and consumption of Victorian media. It considers such examples as Sherlock Holmes, Kewpie Dolls, media forms and practices such as cut-outs, popular lectures, telephone conversations or early theater broadcasting, and such authors as Nellie Bly, Mark Twain, and Walter Besant, offering insight into the variety of transmedia practices present in the long nineteenth century. The book brings together methods and theories from comics studies, communication and media studies, English and American studies, narratology and more, and proposes fresh ways to think about transmediality. Though the target audiences are students, teachers, and scholars in the humanities, the book will also resonate with non-academic readers interested in how media contents are produced, disseminated, and consumed, and with what implications"--
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- Publication Date:2022.
- Edition:1 Edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:New York, NY
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2022.
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- Description:1 online resource.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781003222941, 1003222943, 9781000542868, 1000542866, 9781000542882, 1000542882
- DOI:10.4324/9781003222941
- oclc:on1273727664
- LC Classification:P90
- Dewey Decimal:302.23
Table of Contents
Foreword by Matthew Freeman1.Nineteenth-Century Transmedia Practices: An IntroductionChristina Meyer and Monika Pietrzak-FrangerPart I: Technology, Culture, Democracy2. Literary Events and Real Policies: The Transmedia Cases of Walter Besant's All Sorts and Conditions of Men (1882) and George Chesney's The Battle of Dorking (1871)Eckart Voigts3. Telephonic Conversations: The Phone and Transmedia Competition in the Culture of the Progressive EraMartin Lüthe4. Transmedial Experience in Nineteenth-Century Live Theater BroadcastingHeidi Liedke5. Rose O'Neill's Kewpies and Early Transmedia PracticesIan GordonPart II: Crossroads of Fact and Fiction6. Transmedia Practices Toward a Popular Cultural Sphere: Lippard, Thompson, and Nineteenth-Century SerialitiesLisanna Wiele7. "She Lectured and Attended Lectures": Transmedia Practices and Female Vocality in Late-Nineteenth-Century Cultures of Public Lecturing and Mass PrintAnne-Julia Zwierlein8. Mobilizations: How Nellie Bly Traveled the WorldChristina MeyerPart III: Transmedia Sherlock9. "To Just Steal the Name of a Character": Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and the Conditions of Transmedia DispersionRoberta Pearson10. Creating Transme…
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