Western University Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository 7-13-2020 10:00 AM The Networked Fictional Narrative: Seriality and Adaptations in Popular Television and New Media. Nandita Dutta, The University of Western Ontario Supervisor: Suárez, Juan Luis, The University of Western Ontario A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the equirr ements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Hispanic Studies © Nandita Dutta 2020 Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd Part of the Digital Humanities Commons, Other Film and Media Studies Commons, Other Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature Commons, and the Television Commons Recommended Citation Dutta, Nandita, "The Networked Fictional Narrative: Seriality and Adaptations in Popular Television and New Media." (2020). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 7287. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/7287 This Dissertation/Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarship@Western. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository by an authorized administrator of Scholarship@Western. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Abstract From creating elaborate fan-worlds to driving large amounts of revenue into the economy, popular culture has proved to be the motivation behind, as well a reflection of, large scale acquisitions of conglomerates that have governed popular interests since the mid-20th Century. If its movements across geographic space, time, and media can be traced, popular cultural production is an apt subject of research into how a cultural entity is conceptualised, transported and appropriated within another. In this study, adaptations of fictional products in the 20th and 21st Centuries are considered as manifestations of neobaroque forms of cultural production and consumption.