Lostology: transmedia storytelling and expansion/compression strategies
The objective of this article is to analyze Lost from the perspective of transmedia storytelling and to propose a taxonomy of transmedia expansion/compression strategies. In the first section, the article presents the basic components of transmedia storytelling from a theoretical point of view that...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2013 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
| Repository: | Repositorio Digital de la UPF |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/26243 |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10230/26243 http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2013-0038 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | User-generated contents Strategy Narrative Storytelling Transmedia Lost |
| Summary: | The objective of this article is to analyze Lost from the perspective of transmedia storytelling and to propose a taxonomy of transmedia expansion/compression strategies. In the first section, the article presents the basic components of transmedia storytelling from a theoretical point of view that combines narratology and semiotics. After describing the most important components of Lost's transmedia fictional universe in the second section, the article presents a general description and taxonomy of expansion/compression narrative strategies based on traditional rhetorical categories. The article also analyzes “compressed texts” – like recapitulations – and their role inside the expansive strategies. |
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