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Narrative Worlds and Future Histories. Models of Serial Expansion from Pulp Magazines to Transmedia Franchises.

Authors: Bertetti, Paolo;

Narrative Worlds and Future Histories. Models of Serial Expansion from Pulp Magazines to Transmedia Franchises.

Abstract

Le forme di serialità modulare e transmediale che si sono sviluppati negli ultimi anni, dalle nuove serie televisive al proliferare dei franchise transmediali, hanno posti concetti quali “mondo narrativo” e “costruzione del mondo al centro del dibattito scientifico sui media e degli stessi meccanismi di produzione mediale. Sta emergendo una vera e propria estetica della worldness che accomuna cinema, televisione, letteratura, videogioco ecc.Utilizzando metodologie storiche e semiotico-narrative, il contributo vuole evidenziare come questo tipo di serialità, basata sulla condivisone di mondi narrativi, sia però tutt’altro che nuovo. Come molti altri meccanismi seriali se ne infatti possono ritracciare le origini nelle pratiche narrative dei pulp magazine della prima metà del secolo scorso. In particolare, la seconda parte dell’articolo si sofferma su un particolare modello di costruzione seriale, quello delle cosiddette “storie future” che, nata negli anni ’40 del XX secolo, è oggi alla base dell’espansione narrativa dei maggiori franchise transmediali di fantascienza.

The forms of modular and transmedia seriality developed in recent years, such as the new TV series or the transmedia franchises, have made central both in the scientific debate about the media and in the mechanisms of media production concepts such as "fictional worlds" and "worldbuilding”. A real aesthetics of worldness connecting movies, television, literature and videogames is emerging.Using historical, semiotic and narratological methods, my paper aims at highlighting how this kind of seriality, based on the sharing of narrative worlds, is not a new phenomenon. Like other serial mechanisms, we can retrace the origins in the narrative practices of pulp magazines of the first half of the XXth century. In the second part of the paper I will focus on a particular model of serial construction, the so-called "future histories", that made its first appearance during the 1940s and is at the basis of the narrative expansion of science fiction transmedia franchises today.

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