Transmedia Storytelling and the Apocalypse

Demonstrates how changes unique to each platform connect with the rise of transmedia storytelling Attributes the rise of the post-apocalyptic genre to concurrent transformations in the media industry rather than cultural fears Advances a new understanding of genre-medium coevolution

Autorentext

Stephen Joyce is Associate Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the author of A River of Han: Eastern Tragedy in a Western Land.

Inhalt
Part 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.