Freeman, M (2014) 'Advertising the Yellow Brick Road: historicising the industrial emergence of transmedia storytelling.' International Journal of Communication, 8. pp. 2362-2381.
Abstract
Tracing the industrial emergence of transmedia storytelling—typically branded a product of contemporary media convergence—this article provides a historicized intervention on the configuration of transmedia storytelling in U.S. culture at the turn of the 20th century. I draw on L. Frank Baum’s Land of Oz storyworld and its multiple texts and promotional tie-ins as a case study for revealing how the industrial rise of transmedia storytelling can be recontextualized as a cultural product of early-20th-century modern advertising. The article maps the ways in which Baum engineered Oz stories transmedially at this time according to broader slippages between content and promotion across platforms.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Note: | Full text available at URL above. |
| Keywords: | transmedia, mass culture, advertising, narrative, cross-promotion, Land of Oz |
| Divisions: | Bath School of Art, Film and Media |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Jul 2015 15:16 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Jan 2022 15:22 |
| ISSN: | 1932 – 8036 |
| URI / Page ID: | https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/6287 |
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