Legal Stories: Narrative-Based Property Development in the Modern Copyright Era

by Gregory Steirer

Tracing the emergence of what the media industries today call transmedia, story worlds, and narrative franchises, Legal Stories provides a dual history of copyright law and narrative-based media development between the Copyright Act of 1909 and the Copyright Act of 1976. Drawing on archival material, including legal case files, and employing the principles of actor-network theory, Gregory Steirer demonstrates how the meaning and form of narrative-based...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472076825
• ISBN13: 9780472076826
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"