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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alexis WeedonPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2021 Weight: 0.524kg ISBN: 9783030724757ISBN 10: 3030724751 Pages: 281 Publication Date: 19 June 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction. - Chapter 2. Storytellers and the participatory audience. - Chapter 3. Writing across media: the techniques of Clemence Dane. - Chapter 4. Adaptations of Elizabeth I and Shakespeare by Clemence Dane. - Chapter 5. Novelist as a Pierrot: G.B. Stern on women and role-playing identity. - Chapter 6. Race and migration in fiction, on stage and film: G.B. Stern. - Chapter 7. Live radio and film dialogue: Hugh Walpole’s creation of fictional friends. - Chapter 8. A story in pictures: A.E.W. Mason’s film writing. - Chapter 9. A collaborative radio serial with Clemence Dane and Hugh Walpole. - Chapter 10. Conclusion.ReviewsAuthor InformationAlexis Weedon is a Professor at the University of Bedfordshire, UK, and holds the UNESCO Chair in New Media Forms of the Book. She is author of Victorian Publishing: The Economics of the Book for the Mass Market 1830-1916 (2016), and co-author of Elinor Glyn: Novelist, Businesswoman and Glamour Icon (2014). She also co-edited the new media journal Convergence, as well as several books, including Fiction and The Woman Question 1860-1930 (2020), Developing a Sense of Place (2020), and Retelling Cinderella: Cultural and Creative Transformations (2020). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |