Children’s Literature Across Media
Concepts and perspectives of transmedia narratives
Based in international, interdisciplinary research, the chapters explore a wide range of transmedia narrative phenomena. They highlight narratological issues of world-building, analyze the interplay between transmedia franchises and seriality, investigate networked reception in fan communities, and discuss the relationship between conventional literature and fan works from the perspective of young fanfiction authors.
Interviews with international actors from production companies and new educational institutions create dialogues between research, development, and production.
The book bridges international research from book history, media studies, and children’s literature studies. Combining a focus on digital and analogue media and pointing to interactions rather than ontologies of separate genres, texts, and media, the volume seeks to inspire future studies and prac-tices, including work that recognizes children not only as users but also as creators.
Table of Contents
- List of figures | pp. vii–x
- Introduction: Transmedia and intermediality studies and texts for and by children and young adultsNina Christensen, Ute Dettmar and Sarah Mygind | pp. 1–11
- Part I. Analysis of transmedia narratives and phenomena
- Chapter 1. The building blocks of transmedial seriality: The Lego franchiseBenjamin Beil and Hanns Christian Schmidt | pp. 14–30
- Chapter 2. Work in progress: Storytelling and worldbuilding in Cornelia Funke’s Mirrorworld seriesUte Dettmar | pp. 31–47
- Chapter 3. Carmilla: The narrative aesthetics of a web seriesUlrike Kristina Köhler | pp. 48–66
- Chapter 4. Exploring rooms where children can read: The transmediality of Filipino Room to Read picturebooksCheeno Marlo M. Sayuno | pp. 67–88
- Part II. Fan engagement in transmedia contexts
- Chapter 5. Transmedia book love: Young people’s digital creativity on the BookternetGitte Balling, Marianne Martens and Jessica B. Wise | pp. 90–108
- Chapter 6. Considering the links between transmedia engagement and minoritized identities through intersectional Harry Potter fanworksJennifer Duggan | pp. 109–128
- Chapter 7. “Trial by TikTok”? Children’s social negotiation of controversial transmedial charactersLisbeth Klastrup | pp. 129–149
- Chapter 8. The mass in the margins: On fanfiction’s controversial place in the literary and transmedia landscapeFabienne Silberstein-Bamford | pp. 150–168
- Part III. Producing transmedia content
- Chapter 9. “You can merge two brains”: Youth literary practices in a local, collaborative contextSarah Mygind | pp. 170–190
- Chapter 10. So much more than books: Children’s literature in converging marketsCorinna Norrick-Rühl and Anke Vogel | pp. 191–210
- Chapter 11. The new generation of creators of content for children and young people: Interview with Elin Algreen-Petersen, head of the Cross-Media School of Children’s Fiction, DenmarkSarah Mygind | pp. 211–221
- Chapter 12. Adapting transmedia content for young adults across national contexts: The German public broadcasting service funk as a case. Interview with Jella RitzenSarah Mygind | pp. 222–227
- About the editors and contributors | pp. 228–231