All Outputs (3)

Super Mario seriality : Nintendo’s narratives and audience targeting within the video game console industry (2014)
Book Chapter
Smith, A. (2014). Super Mario seriality : Nintendo’s narratives and audience targeting within the video game console industry. In R. Pearson, & A. Smith (Eds.), Storytelling in the Media Convergence Age: Exploring Screen Narratives (21-39). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137388155_2

While games studies has theorised the ways in which video games convey narrative it has so far neglected the industrial circumstances that structure these narratives. Using the video game developer, publisher and hardware-manufacturer Nintendo as a c... Read More about Super Mario seriality : Nintendo’s narratives and audience targeting within the video game console industry.

Storytelling in the media convergence age : exploring screen narratives (2014)
Book
(2014). A. Smith, & R. Pearson (Eds.), Storytelling in the media convergence age : exploring screen narratives. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137388155

This collection investigates the relationship between contemporary screen narratives and their varied contexts of production, circulation and reception, exploring storytelling practices across a range of different media and national and institutional... Read More about Storytelling in the media convergence age : exploring screen narratives.

Made for TV monsters : how has the rise of horror on US television affected the spectacle and acceptability of the genre?
Thesis
Gaynor, S. (in press). Made for TV monsters : how has the rise of horror on US television affected the spectacle and acceptability of the genre?. (Thesis). University of Salford

This study will explore the rise of horror drama on US television, investigating the significance of this trend of horror programming to both the US television industry and the understanding and acceptability of the horror genre as a whole. The first... Read More about Made for TV monsters : how has the rise of horror on US television affected the spectacle and acceptability of the genre?.