Using the case of Game of Thrones, Iain Robert Smith considers what happens to fidelity criticism when a show goes beyond the published material and starts to “adapt” material that has been planned but not yet written by the original author.
Read more »
Posts Tagged ‘ seriality ’
Game of Thrones: Adaptation and Fidelity in an Age of Convergence
Downloading Serial (part 4)
As Serial concludes, what does its successes and shortcomings teach us about the possibilities of podcasting?
Read more »
Downloading Serial (part 3)
How do forensic fandom practices work when applied to a serialized non-fiction mystery?
Read more »
Downloading Serial (part 2)
As we wait to fill the serial gaps between Serial episodes, let's explore the podcast's use of temporality.
Read more »
Downloading Serial (part 1)
This new form of serialized nonfictional podcasting is both compelling essential listening, and a challenge to our expectations for journalism.
Read more »
Episodic: What Games Learned From TV
While episodic gaming is a new frontier for how developers make games, it is perhaps an even larger divergence in terms of how we play games.
Read more »
News Media and the Comic Book Narrative
Why do news media circulate comic book spoilers before special issues hit the stands?
Read more »
Summer Media: Reading Sookie Stackhouse
True Blood begins its third season on HBO this summer, but perhaps more fun than catching up on the show's previous seasons is reading the series of novels and short stories on which the show is based.
Read more »
Damages: A Tale of Two Women
Taking power away from a man is a dangerous thing. Or so says high-stakes attorney Patty Hewes of FX’s Damages.
Read more »
We’re Running Out of Time!
With only eight hours left, 24 dies as it lived--made up as it goes along.
Read more »