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.
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Tags: adaptation, convergence, Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin, novels, seriality, television
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As Serial concludes, what does its successes and shortcomings teach us about the possibilities of podcasting?
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Tags: crime procedural, podcasting, Serial, seriality
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How do forensic fandom practices work when applied to a serialized non-fiction mystery?
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Tags: fandom, paratexts, Serial, seriality
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As we wait to fill the serial gaps between Serial episodes, let's explore the podcast's use of temporality.
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Tags: authorship, crime procedural, narrative, podcasts, Serial, seriality, temporality
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This new form of serialized nonfictional podcasting is both compelling essential listening, and a challenge to our expectations for journalism.
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Tags: crime procedural, journalism, Serial, seriality, The Wire, This American Life
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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.
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Tags: adaptation, digital distribution, episodic gaming, gaming, seriality, television, The Walking Dead, video games
Posted in Games, Perspectives, TV | Comments Off on Episodic: What Games Learned From TV
Why do news media circulate comic book spoilers before special issues hit the stands?
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Tags: comics, magazines, Marvel Comics, news media, seriality, spoilers, The Fantastic Four
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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.
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Tags: adaptation, Charlaine Harris, franchise, HBO, narrative, Narrative Complexity, seriality, Sookie Stackhouse, Southern Vampire Mysteries, television, True Blood
Posted in Perspectives, Summer Media | 9 Comments »
Taking power away from a man is a dangerous thing. Or so says high-stakes attorney Patty Hewes of FX’s Damages.
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Tags: Damages, gender/representation, seriality
Posted in Perspectives, TV | 4 Comments »
With only eight hours left, 24 dies as it lived--made up as it goes along.
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Tags: 24, Lost, seriality, television
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