{"id":1399,"date":"2007-03-09T02:24:10","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T02:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2007-03-09T02:24:10","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T02:24:10","slug":"thirty-odd-slides-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1399","title":{"rendered":"Thirty-odd slides later&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crazy thing isn&#8217;t that I&#8217;m presenting on &#8220;Transmedia Storytelling, Niche Media, and the Jim Henson Company&#8221; at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference on Sunday.  The crazy thing is that I have <i>so bloody much to say about it.<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Negative capability is often a key tactic when it comes to transmedia storytelling, which is why I found it so interesting to see the Jim Henson Company returning to <i>The Dark Crystal<\/i> and <i>Labyrinth<\/i> as narrative worlds when revitalizing their company in the early 2000s.  The two properties stand in stark contrast to one another in how they utilize negative capability &#150;  or, more effectively, how one property very definitely uses negative capability and the other almost willfully doesn&#8217;t.  By examining each of these properties in turn, first through the &#8216;core&#8217; narrative and then through their transmedial extensions (the 1983 book <i>The World of the Dark Crystal<\/i> by Brian Froud, the 1986 book <i>The Goblins of Labyrinth<\/i> by Froud and Monty Python&#8217;s Terry Jones, and the 2006 manga <i>Return to Labyrinth<\/i> by Jake T. Forbes) we can see how the skillful use of negative capability proves critical when nurturing a transmedial franchise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To think I was worried about filling 20 minutes.  Yeesh.  On the upside, this is a <i>great<\/i> dry run for the thesis research presentation I have to give back at MIT in a few weeks.  I&#8217;m feeling pretty decent about this whole state of affairs, knock on wood.  Oh, and hey &#150; I found out the original source of the phrase &#8216;negative capability&#8217; today, and believe it or not, it was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Negative_Capability\">Keats!<\/a>  Score one for the poets!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crazy thing isn&#8217;t that I&#8217;m presenting on &#8220;Transmedia Storytelling, Niche Media, and the Jim Henson Company&#8221; at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference on Sunday. The crazy thing is that I have so bloody much to say about it. Negative capability is often a key tactic when it comes to transmedia storytelling, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thesis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-mz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}