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OverviewThis book confronts the question of why our culture is so fascinated by the apocalypse. It ultimately argues that while many see the post-apocalyptic genre as reflective of contemporary fears, it has actually co-evolved with the transformations in our mediascape to become a perfect vehicle for transmedia storytelling. The post-apocalyptic offers audiences a portal to a fantasy world that is at once strange and familiar, offers a high degree of internal consistency and completeness, and allows for a diversity of stories by different creative teams in the same story world. With case studies of franchises such as The Walking Dead and The Terminator, Transmedia Storytelling and the Apocalypse offers analyses of how shifts in media industries and reception cultures have promoted a new kind of open, world-building narrative across film, television, video games, and print. For transmedia scholars and fans of the genre, this book shows how the end of the world is reallyjust the beginning… Full Product DetailsAuthor: Stephen JoycePublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG Edition: 1st ed. 2018 Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9783319939513ISBN 10: 3319939513 Pages: 220 Publication Date: 10 September 2018 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 ContentsPart I: Portal.- 1. Doomsday Dreaming.- 2. The End of the Media as We Know It.- 3. The Appeal of the Apocalypse.- Part II: Post-Apocalypse.- 4. The Ending of I Am Legend.- 5. Battlestar Galactica’s Post-9/11 Apocalypse.- 6. World Building and World Destroying in BioShock and The Last of Us.- 7. Convergence Publishing and Prestige Niches.- 8. Antichrist Obama and the Doomsday Preppers.- Part III: Paradigms.- 9. The Many Deaths of The Terminator.- 10. The Many Lives of The Walking Dead.- 11. Epilogue: After the End.ReviewsAuthor InformationStephen Joyce is Associate Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the author of A River of Han: Eastern Tragedy in a Western Land. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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