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1 online resource (395 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
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text file |
| Series |
Transmedia : participatory culture and media convergence ; 2
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Transmedia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 2.
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction. Worlds, today / Marta Boni -- Aesthetics of proliferation / Marie-Laure Ryan -- Building science-fiction worlds / Paolo Bertetti -- "He doesn't look like Sherlock Holmes": the truth value and existential status of fictional worlds and their characters / Julien Lapointe -- "Visible world": the atlas as a visual form of knowledge and narrative paradigm in contemporary art / Cristina Baldacci -- A world of Disney: building a transmedia storyworld for Mickey and his friends / Matthew Freeman -- World-building logics and copyright: the Dark Knight and the Great Detective / Roberta Pearson -- Battleworlds: the management of multiplicity in the media industries / Derek Johnson -- Platform producer meets game master: on the conditions for the media mix / Marc Steinberg -- Narrative ecosystems: a multidisciplinary approach to media worlds / Veronica Innocenti and Guglielmo Pescatore -- Building and blurring of worlds: sound, space, and complex narrative cinema / Justin Horton -- Beyond immersion: absorption, saturation, and overflow in the building of imaginary worlds / Mark J.P. Wolf -- Zombie escape and survival plans: mapping the transmedial world of the dead / Bernard Perron -- MMORPG as locally realized worlds of action / Laurent Di Filippo -- Worries of the world(s): cartoons and cinema / Karen Redrobe -- Linguistic terrain and world time: Chinese media theories and their world imaginations / Victor Fan -- Worlds align: media convergence and complementary storyworlds in Marvel's Thor: The Dark World / Dru Jeffries -- World building and metafiction in contemporary comic books: metalepsis and figurative process of graphic fiction / Denis Mellier -- Monster at the end of this book: metalepsis, fandom, and world making in contemporary TV series / Valentina Re -- Traversing the "Whoniverse": Doctor Who's hyperdiegesis and transmedia discontinuity/diachrony / Matt Hills -- Transmediaphilia, world building, and the pleasures of the personal digital archive / Jim Collins -- Politics of world building: heteroglossia in Janelle Monáe's Afrofuturist WondaLand / Dan Hassler-Forest. |
| Access |
Open Access Unrestricted online access |
| Summary |
"Thanks to modern technology, we are now living in an age of multiplatform fictional worlds, as television, film, the Internet, graphic novels, toys and more facilitate the creation of diverse yet compact imaginary universes, which are often recognisable as brands and exhibit well-defined identities. This volume, situated at the cutting edge of media theory, explores this phenomenon from both theoretical and practical perspectives, uncovering how the construction of these worlds influences our own determination of values and meaning in contemporary society."--Page 4 of cover. |
| Local Note |
Project Muse Project Muse Open Access |
| Language |
Text in English. |
| Subject |
Storytelling in mass media. |
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Mass media -- Social aspects. |
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Imaginary places in mass media. |
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Mass media -- Social aspects.
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Storytelling in mass media.
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Imaginary places in mass media.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books. .
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| Added Author |
Boni, Marta, editor, writer of introduction.
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Project Muse, distributor.
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| Other Form: |
World building. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2017 9789048525317 (OCoLC)1018944859 |
| ISBN |
9789048525317 |
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9048525314 |
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9789089647566 |
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9089647562 |
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