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A storyworld across media presents scholars of authorship, creativity and cultural production with opportunities to consider how authorship and author ‘brand’ influence character, plot and audience interaction over time and across formats. This article explores authorship in transmedial storyworlds, employing three different but interrelated theoretical models – media franchises, artistic spawning and distributed authorship – to analyse Netflix’s 2022 teen drama series, Wednesday, and its position within contemporary culture and the Addams Family universe. Collaborating as literary studies, screen studies, publishing studies and cultural labour researchers, we demonstrate the strength of ‘close cross-disciplinarity’ as a method of analysis for authorship and transmedial storyworlds.
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