Remediating Tinker Bell: Childhood commodification and the transmedia narrative
Meyers, Eric M.; Krabbenhoft, Lindsey; McKnight, Julia P.
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Title
Remediating Tinker Bell: Childhood commodification and the transmedia narrative
Author(s)
Meyers, Eric M.
Krabbenhoft, Lindsey
McKnight, Julia P.
Issue Date
2013-02
Keyword(s)
children
childhood
transmedia
virtual worlds
narrative
cultural informatics
intertextuality
material culture
digital media
remediation
Abstract
The 100-year trajectory of the mischievous Tinker Bell, 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 multiple incarnations of a media franchise at 50-year intervals. Our close-reading yields insights into the reflexive relationship between social constructions of childhood, the evolution of narrative in children’s literature, and the development of media for child audiences since the Edwardian era.
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