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SUMMARY:Jason Mittell: “Strategies of Storytelling in Transmedia Television”
DESCRIPTION:As television series have become more complex in their narrative strategies\, television itself has expanded its storytelling scope across screens and platforms\, complicating notions of medium-specificity at the very same time that television seems to have a more distinct narrative form. This presentation explores how television narratives have expanded and been complicated through transmedia extensions\, including video games\, novelizations\, websites\, online video\, and alternate reality games. Through specific analyses of transmedia strategies for Lost\, Breaking Bad\, and The Simpsons\, the lecture considers how transmedia storytelling grapples with issues of canonicity and audience segmentation\, how transmedia reframes viewer expectations for the core television serial\, and what transmedia possibilities might look like going forward. \nJason Mittell is Professor of American Studies and Film & Media Culture at Middlebury College. His books include Genre and Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture (Routledge\, 2004)\, Television and American Culture (Oxford University Press\, 2009)\, How to Watch Television (co-edited with Ethan Thompson\, NYU Press\, 2013)\, and Complex Television: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling (forthcoming from New York University Press\, online at MediaCommons Press). He maintains the blog Just TV.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/jason-mittell-storytelling-in-transmedia-television/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comparative Media Insights
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SUMMARY:Vicki Mayer: "Where 'Home' Is: Film Production Economies and the Privatization of Space"
DESCRIPTION:Vicki Mayer\nVicki Mayer is Professor of Communication at Tulane University. She has published widely on media production and producers. She is Editor of the journal Television & New Media\, and she directs the digital humanities projects MediaNOLA and New Orleans Historical. \nThis talk will give an overview of her current research into the impacts of regional policies for film production on ordinary people’s understandings of time\, space and place. This is a talk less about the economic impacts of the policies than on the social and subjective experiences of people who live in cities driven by media production economies. In particular\, she will highlight the impacts of location-based film production on the ways residents in New Orleans\, Louisiana\, move through public space. Since Hurricane Katrina in 2005\, the state has sponsored aggressive incentives policies that have transformed the region into the third largest film economy in the United States. Using GIS mapping software and personal photography\, Mayer explores the ways this publicly financed economy privatizes public space by making the local into locations\, by commodifying local culture\, and by increasing the stratification of wealth in the post-Katrina landscape. These images provide a textured look at the way political economies can be visualized not only geographically but also as part of the ordinary experience of everyday life in a city still and always posited as “recovering.” At the end of this talk\, she presents an alternative way of mediating spatial experiences and histories through a digital humanities project that she has directed since 2008.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/vicki-mayer-film-production-economies/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comparative Media Insights
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