Abstract

MEYERS, Eric M.; KRABBENHOFT, Lindsey  and  MCKNIGHT, Julia P.. Remediating tinker bell: exploring the foundations of transmedia through a century-long narrative system. LTP [online]. 2013, vol.31, n.61, pp.13-41. ISSN 2317-0972.

Abstract The 100-year trajectory of the mischievous Sininho, from J.M Barrie’s 1904 play Peter Pan to the present-day Disney Fairies franchise, is a metanarrative of adaptation and remediation through which media and “childhood” can be seen to interrelate as mutually constitutive forces. With a focus on contemporary children’s media and narrative, this paper examines incarnations of a media franchise at 50-year intervals. Our close reading yields insights into the reflexive relationship between the social constructions of childhood, the evolution of narrative in children’s literature, and the development of media for child audiences since the Edwardian era. Using Tinkerbell as exemplar for a phenomenon, we find that as children’s narrative and children’s media evolve in ways that increase the potential for childhood agency, commercial formulations strategically shape this agency by structuring access and participation.

Keywords : Tinkerbell;; Transmedia;; Narrative and Virtual Worlds;; Close Reading.

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