Theorizing Stupid Media De-Naturalizing Story Structures in the Cinematic, Televisual, and Videogames /

• Main Authors: Kerner, Aaron (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Hoxter, Julian (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Film genres.; Popular Culture.; Genre.; Popular Culture .

This book explores the stupid as it manifests in media-the cinema, television and streamed content, and videogames. The stupid is theorized as media that "fails" to conform to established narrative conventions, often surfacing at evolutionary moments. Each chapter explores different manife...

Table of Contents:

• 1.The Stupider the Better
• 2.The Stupid in the Contemporary Hollywood Vernacular: Spectacularly Stupid Transformers
• 3.The Stupid in Genre Fails
• 4.The Stupid as Narrative Dissonance
• 5.The Stupid as Ludonarrative Dissonance
• 6.Conclusion: Well That Was Stupid.