Stories where the plot revolves around the author’s autobiographical elements, and the author is portrayed as a character in the story. There are numerous genres and formats: Autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, self-portraits, correspondence, blogs, chats, selfies, photologs, videoblogs, autofiction, etc.
Published in Chapter:
The Mirror Effect and the Transparent City in Audio-Visual Non-Dramatic Fiction: Comedic Autofiction on Television
Inmaculada Gordillo (University of Seville, Spain)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 13
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3119-8.ch003
Abstract
In the past, there was always a clear delineation between fiction and the news or fiction and documentary film. Today, however, elements of crossover and hybridization it can be observed in most formats: reality and fiction, public and private, are intermingled. Life itself seeps into fictional accounts, approaching the eternal comedy. Digital formats permit the multiplication of stories and the democratisation of productions. They create a true amalgam of new and old hybrid products, such that comedy also infuses the non-fiction content. Social change is convincingly reflected in the stories that each collective elaborates and consumes. Today, without question, audiovisual stories offer a clear, in-depth analysis of all the social transformations in which we currently find ourselves immersed, therefore this chapter offers an exploration of the novel formats that are extended into the stories that are told on television and on the internet.