Transmedia Practices in the Long Nineteenth Century

Author:   Christina Meyer (Freie Universität of Berlin, Germany) ,  Monika Pietrzak-Franger (University of Vienna, Austria)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9781032120843


Pages:   194
Publication Date:   25 September 2023
Format:   Paperback
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Our Price $81.99 Quantity:  
Add to Cart

Share |

Transmedia Practices in the Long Nineteenth Century


Add your own review!

Overview

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.

Full Product Details

Author:   Christina Meyer (Freie Universität of Berlin, Germany) ,  Monika Pietrzak-Franger (University of Vienna, Austria)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032120843


ISBN 10:   1032120843
Pages:   194
Publication Date:   25 September 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Matthew Freeman; 1.Nineteenth-Century Transmedia Practices: An Introduction; Part I: Technology, Culture, Democracy; 2. 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); 3. Telephonic Conversations: The Phone and Transmedia Competition in the Culture of the Progressive Era; 4. Transmedial Experience in Nineteenth-Century Live Theater Broadcasting; 5. Rose O’Neill’s Kewpies and Early Transmedia Practices; Part II: Crossroads of Fact and Fiction; 6. Transmedia Practices Toward a Popular Cultural Sphere: Lippard, Thompson, and Nineteenth-Century Serialities; 7. “She Lectured and Attended Lectures”: Transmedia Practices and Female Vocality in Late-Nineteenth-Century Cultures of Public Lecturing and Mass Print; 8. Mobilizations: How Nellie Bly Traveled the World; Part III: Transmedia Sherlock; 9. “To just steal the name of a character”: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and the Conditions of Transmedia Dispersion; 10. Creating Transmedia Fan Engagement in Victorian Periodicals: The Case of Sherlock Holmes

Reviews

Author Information

Christina Meyer is Associate Professor of American Studies, currently working at the TU Braunschweig, Germany. She is the author of Producing Mass Entertainment: The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid (2019). Monika Pietrzak-Franger is Professor of British Cultural and Literary Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. She has published on adaptation, transmediality, medicine and culture, (neo-)Victorianism, science, and globalization.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions
Latest Reading Guide

wl

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List