World Building: Transmedia, Fans, Industries

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2017

World Building

Transmedia, Fans, Industries

Edited by: Marta Boni

Volume 2 in the series Transmedia

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048525317

Overview
Contents

About this book

This edited collection of original essays situates itself at the cutting edge of media theory, exploring imaginary worlds as forms of knowledge and forms of life.

Author / Editor information

Boni Marta :

Marta Boni is assistant professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Montreal. She has published Romanzo Criminale. Transmedia and Beyond (Ca' Foscari University Press, 2013), co-edited Networking Images. Approches interdisciplinaires des images en réseau (Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2013), various essays in international scientific journals such as Mise au point, MEI, SERIES, Cinergie, and chapters in edited collections on television seriality, fandom, media paratexts, and transmedia.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Introduction Worlds, Today Marta Boni Open Access Download PDF	9
Section 1. Theories of World Building
1. The Aesthetics of Proliferation Marie-Laure Ryan Open Access Download PDF	31
2. Building Science-Fiction Worlds Paolo Bertetti Open Access Download PDF	47
3. “He Doesn’t Look Like Sherlock Holmes” The Truth Value and Existential Status of Fictional Worlds and their Characters Julien Lapointe Open Access Download PDF	62
4. “Visible World” The Atlas as a Visual Form of Knowledge and Narrative Paradigm in Contemporary Art Cristina Baldacci Open Access Download PDF	77
Section 2. Economies of World Building
5. A World of Disney Building a Transmedia Storyworld for Mickey and his Friends Matthew Freeman Open Access Download PDF	93
6. World-Building Logics and Copyright The Dark Knight and the Great Detective Roberta Pearson Open Access Download PDF	109
7. Battleworlds The Management of Multiplicity in the Media Industries Derek Johnson Open Access Download PDF	129
8. Platform Producer Meets Game Master On the Conditions for the Media Mix Marc Steinberg Open Access Download PDF	143
9. Narrative Ecosystems A Multidisciplinary Approach to Media Worlds Veronica Innocenti and Guglielmo Pescatore Open Access Download PDF	164
Section 3. Immersion
10. The Building and Blurring of Worlds Sound, Space, and Complex Narrative Cinema Justin Horton Open Access Download PDF	187
11. Beyond Immersion Absorption, Saturation, and Overflow in the Building of Imaginary Worlds Mark J.P. Wolf Open Access Download PDF	204
12. Zombie Escape and Survival Plans Mapping the Transmedial World of the Dead Bernard Perron Open Access Download PDF	215
13. MMORPG as Locally Realized Worlds of Action Laurent Di Filippo Open Access Download PDF	231
Section 4. Media as World-Building Devices
14. The Worries of the World(s) Cartoons and Cinema Karen Redrobe Open Access Download PDF	253
15. Linguistic Terrain and World Time Chinese Media Theories and Their World Imaginations Victor Fan Open Access Download PDF	272
16. The Worlds Align Media Convergence and Complementary Storyworlds in Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World Dru Jeffries Open Access Download PDF	287
17. World Building and Metafiction in Contemporary Comic Books Metalepsis and Figurative Process of Graphic Fiction Denis Mellier Open Access Download PDF	304
Section 5. Appropriations and Fan Practices
18. The Monster at the End of This Book Metalepsis, Fandom, and World Making in Contemporary TV Series Valentina Re Open Access Download PDF	321
19. Traversing the “Whoniverse” Doctor Who’s Hyperdiegesis and Transmedia Discontinuity/ Diachrony Matt Hills Open Access Download PDF	343
20. Transmediaphilia , World Building, and the Pleasures of the Personal Digital Archive Jim Collins Open Access Download PDF	362
21. The Politics of World Building Heteroglossia in Janelle Monáe’s Afrofuturist WondaLand Dan Hassler-Forest Open Access Download PDF	377
Index Open Access Download PDF	393

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 380
Keywords: Transmedia; World Building; Convergenge

eBook

Published: September 13, 2017
ISBN: 9789048525317