MIT Convergence Culture Consortium: Archives
149-164 (Rec.)
Guest Speakers: Mauricio Mota, Mark Warshaw, Here Come the Alchemists
Part Two: Narrative Structures
September 16: Seriality
Angela Ndalianis, Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004), “Polycentrism and Seriality: (Neo-)Baroque Narrative Formation,” pp. 31-70.
Jason Mittell, “All in the Game: The Wire, Serial Storytelling and Procedural Logic” (Harrington and Wardrip-Fruin, pp. 429-438. 21-51.
Watch:
The Wire
http://
“>www.amazon.com/Wire-Complete-Fourth-Season/dp/B000QXDJLI/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1197321529&sr=8-1
“Young Prop Joe”
“Bunk and McNulty”
“Young Omar”
Jennifer Haywood, Consuming Pleasures: Active Audiences and Serial Fictions from Dickens to Soap Opera (University of Kentucky Press, 1997), “Mutual Friends: The Development of the Mass Serial,” pp. (rec)
Week 5
September 21: Soaps Go Transmedia
Sharon Marie Ross, “Managing Millennials: Teen Expectations of Tele-Participation,” Beyond the Box: Television and the Internet (London: Blackwell, 2008), pp. 124-172.
Diaries: Transmedia Storytelling destined for ATWT,” As the World Turns in a Convergence Culture (Master’s Thesis), pp.
Sam Ford, “From Oakdale Confidential to L.A. 141-162.
Louisa Stein, “Playing Dress Up: Digital Fashion and Game Extensions of Televisual Experience in Gossip Girl’s Second Life,” Cinema Journal, pp.
Watch:
Gossip Girl: Tales From the Upper East Side
http://www.cwtv.com/thecw/gossip-girl-tales-from-the-upper-east-side
LA Diaries mostly
http://www.cbs.com/daytime/specials/la_diaries/episodes.php
September 23: Creating Alternate Realities
Christy Dena, “Emerging Participatory Culture Practices: Player-Created Tiers in Alternate Reality Games,” Convergence, February 2008, pp. 116-122.
41-58.
Jane McGonigal, Why I Love Bees: A Case Study in Collective Intelligence Gaming.” Ecologies of Play. Katie Salen. Ed. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008), pp. 199-228. 207-284.
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1162/dmal.9780262693646.199
Dave Szulborski, “Puppetmastering: Creating a Game” and “Puppetmastering: Running a Game,”This Is Not A Game: A Guide to Alternate Reality Gaming (New York: New Fiction, 2005), pp.
Guest Speaker: Evan Jones, Stitch Media
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Week 6
September 28: Speaking of Serials
Kim Deitch, Alias the Cat (New York: Pantheon, 2007) (Required Book)
David Kalat, “The Long Arm of Fantomas” (Harrington and Wardrip-Fruin), pp. 211-225. 21-40.
September 30: The Unfolding Text
Neil Perryman, “Doctor Who and the Convergence of Media: A Case Study in Transmedia Storytelling,” Convergence, February 2008, pp.
Lance Perkin,”Truths Universally Acknowledged: How the ‘Rules’ of Doctor Who Affect the Writing,” (Harrington and Wardrip-Fruin), pp.
13-24. 333-343.
Matt Hills, “Absent Epic, Implied Story Arcs, and Variations on a Narrative Theme: Doctor Who (2005) as Cult/Mainstream TV,” (Harrington and Wardrip-Fruin), pp.
Part Three: World-Building
Week 7
October 5: Migratory Characters
William Uricchio and Roberta E. Pearson, “I’m Not Fooled By That Cheap Disguise,” in Roberta E. 182-213.
Pearson, The Many Lives of the Batman: Critical Approaches to A Superhero and His Media (New York: Routledge, 1991), pp.
Will Brooker, “Establishing the Brand: Year One,” Batman Unmasked: Analyzing a Cultural Icon (London: Continuium, 2001), pp. 36-67.
36-50.
Bob Kane, “The Legend of the Batman” (1938) and Bob Kane, “The Origins of the Batman,” (1948) in Dennis O’Neil (ed.) The Secret Origins of the DC Superheroes (New York: DC, 1976), pp.
Bob Kane, “The First Batman” (1956) and Dennis O’Neil, “There Is No Hope in Crime Alley,” (1978) The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told (New York: DC, 1988).
Guest Speaker: Geoffrey Long, GAMBIT
October 7: World Building in Comics
Matthew J. 129-133. Pustz, Comic Book Culture: Fanboys and True Believers (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1999), pp.
Jason Bainbridge, “Worlds Within Worlds: The Role of Superheroes in the Marvel and DC Universe,” Angela Ndalianis (ed.), The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero (New York: Routledge, 2008) pp. 64-85. 303-313.
Sam Ford and Henry Jenkins, “Managing Multiplicity in Superhero Comics,” (Harrington and Wardrip-Fruin), pp.
Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross, Marvels (New York: Marvel Comics, 1993) (Required Book)
Alec Austin, “Hybrid Expectations, mostly Expectations Across Media, CMS Thesis, pp.
97-127. 287-303.
Week 8
October 12: Who Watches the Watchman?
Stuart Moulthrop, “See the Strings: Watchmen and the Under-Language of Media” (Harrington and Wardrip-Fruin), pp.
Watch:
NBS Nightly News With Ted Philips http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd5cInmK6LQ&playnext_from=PL&feature=PlayList&p=878F6464EEBE32F9&index=10
The Keene Act and YOU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkWGZ1G7TAE&playnext_from=PL&feature=PlayList&p=878F6464EEBE32
Saturday Morning Watchmen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDHHrt6l4w
Guest Speaker: Alex McDowell, Production Designer, Watchmen
October 14: World Building in Science Fiction
Walter Jon Williams, “In What Universe?” (Harrington and Wardrip-Fruin), pp. 25-32. Martin, “On the Wild Cards Novels,” in Pat Harrington and Wardrip-Fruin (eds.) Second Person: mostly Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007).
George R.R.
Cordwainer Smith, “The Dead Lady of Clown Town,” and “The Ballad of Lost C’mell,” mostly J.
J. 124-209, pp. Pierce (ed.) The Best of Cordwainer Smith (New York: Del Rey, 1975), pp. 315-337.
Week 9
October 19: Launching a New World
David Lavery, “Lost and Long-Form Television Narrative” (Harrington and Wardrip-Fruin),
pp. 313-323.