Serialization in Popular Culture

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Rob Allen, Thijs van den Berg
Routledge, May 23, 2014 - Social Science - 222 pages

From prime-time television shows and graphic novels to the development of computer game expansion packs, the recent explosion of popular serials has provoked renewed interest in the history and economics of serialization, as well as the impact of this cultural form on readers, viewers, and gamers. In this volume, contributors—literary scholars, media theorists, and specialists in comics, graphic novels, and digital culture—examine the economic, narratological, and social effects of serials from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century and offer some predictions of where the form will go from here.

 

Contents

Introduction
1
PART I Victorian Serials
9
PART II Serialization on Screen
63
PART III Serialization in Comic Books and Graphic Novels
123
PART IV Digital Serialization
155
List of Contributors
201
Index
205
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Rob Allen is a lecturer in the Department of English Language and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Thijs van den Berg is a lecturer in the Department of English Language and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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