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Title World building : transmedia, fans, industries / edited by Marta Boni.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (395 pages) : illustrations (some color)
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Transmedia : participatory culture and media convergence ; 2
Transmedia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 2.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
Note Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 11, 2018).
Contents Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction / Boni, Marta -- Section 1. Theories of World Building -- 1. The Aesthetics of Proliferation / Ryan, Marie-Laure -- 2. Building Science-Fiction Worlds / Bertetti, Paolo -- 3. "He Doesn't Look Like Sherlock Holmes" / Lapointe, Julien -- 4. "Visible World" / Baldacci, Cristina -- Section 2. Economies of World Building -- 5. A World of Disney / Freeman, Matthew -- 6. World-Building Logics and Copyright / Pearson, Roberta -- 7. Battleworlds / Johnson, Derek -- 8. Platform Producer Meets Game Master / Steinberg, Marc -- 9. Narrative Ecosystems / Innocenti, Veronica / Pescatore, Guglielmo -- Section 3. Immersion -- 10. The Building and Blurring of Worlds / Horton, Justin -- 11. Beyond Immersion / Wolf, Mark J.P. -- 12. Zombie Escape and Survival Plans / Perron, Bernard -- 13. MMORPG as Locally Realized Worlds of Action / Di Filippo, Laurent -- Section 4. Media as World-Building Devices -- 14. The Worries of the World(s) / Redrobe, Karen -- 15. Linguistic Terrain and World Time / Fan, Victor -- 16. The Worlds Align / Jeffries, Dru -- 17. World Building and Metafiction in Contemporary Comic Books / Mellier, Denis -- Section 5. Appropriations and Fan Practices -- 18. The Monster at the End of This Book / Re, Valentina -- 19. Traversing the "Whoniverse" / Hills, Matt -- 20. Transmediaphilia, World Building, and the Pleasures of the Personal Digital Archive / Collins, Jim -- 21. The Politics of World Building / Hassler-Forest, Dan -- Index
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This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
Language Text in English.
Subject Imaginary places in mass media.
Storytelling in mass media.
Mass media -- Social aspects.
Lieux imaginaires dans les médias.
Art de conter dans les médias.
Médias -- Aspect social.
Film theory & criticism.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Imaginary places in mass media
Mass media -- Social aspects
Storytelling in mass media
Indexed Term Transmedia, World Building, Convergenge.
Added Author Boni, Marta, editor, writer of introduction.
Other Form: World building. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2017 9789048525317 (OCoLC)1018944859
ISBN 9789048525317 (electronic bk.)
9048525314 (electronic bk.)
9789089647566 (electronic bk.)
9089647562 (electronic bk.)
Standard No. AU@ 000062590637
AU@ 000066531569
CHNEW 001035493
CHVBK 556239555
DKDLA 820120-katalog:999898710005765

 
    
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