Media and Narrative:Understanding"Canonicity"from A Transmedia Storytelling Perspective
As a special type of historical heirloom,Art canon is carried by a certain material or spiritual symbol,and the construction of canon is therefore essentially related to the issue of textual dis-semination.The text constructs a diverse cultural ecology with the help of different media,and its repre-sentation at the media level is an important sign of the text's canonicity.Based on this,this paper starts from the concept of"canonicity"and analyzes its dialectical relationship with media legitimacy,trans-media storytelling,and storyworld construction.On the one hand,the fundamental role of the media to canon can be explained necessarily;on the other hand,the dialectics of the media implied in the pro-cess of canonization will also be effectively revealed.The establishment of a text's canonical status is characterized by its continuous breakthrough from the original media's authenticity in the process of his-torical circulation,towards a highly integrated intermediality.It is also strengthened by the storyworld constructed through transmedia storytelling,and by the superposition of narrative elements and the con-struction of image genealogy.
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