In this Book

World Building
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 recognizable 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.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. open access Download |
  1. Half-Title, Title, Copyright
  2. pp. 1-4
  3. open access Download |
  1. Table of Contents
  2. pp. 5-8
  3. open access Download |
  1. Introduction: Worlds, Today
  2. Marta Boni
  3. pp. 9-28
  4. open access Download |
  1. Section 1: Theories of World Building
  1. 1. The Aesthetics of Proliferation
  2. Marie-Laure Ryan
  3. pp. 29-46
  4. open access Download |
  1. 2. Building Science-Fiction Worlds
  2. Paolo Bertetti
  3. pp. 47-61
  4. open access Download |
  1. 3. “He Doesn’t Look Like Sherlock Holmes”: The Truth Value and Existential Status of Fictional Worlds and their Characters
  2. Julien Lapointe
  3. pp. 62-76
  4. open access Download |
  1. 4. “Visible World”: The Atlas as a Visual Form of Knowledge and Narrative Paradigm in Contemporary Art
  2. Cristina Baldacci
  3. pp. 77-90
  4. open access Download |
  1. Section 2: Economies of World Building
  1. 5. A World of Disney: Building a Transmedia Storyworld for Mickey and his Friends
  2. Matthew Freeman
  3. pp. 91-108
  4. open access Download |
  1. 6. World-Building Logics and Copyright: The Dark Knight and the Great Detective
  2. Roberta Pearson
  3. pp. 109-128
  4. open access Download |
  1. 7. Battleworlds: The Management of Multiplicity in the Media Industries
  2. Derek Johnson
  3. pp. 129-142
  4. open access Download |
  1. 8. Platform Producer Meets Game Master: On the Conditions for the Media Mix
  2. Marc Steinberg
  3. pp. 143-163
  4. open access Download |
  1. 9. Narrative Ecosystems: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Media Worlds1
  2. Veronica Innocenti, Guglielmo Pescatore
  3. pp. 164-184
  4. open access Download |
  1. Section 3: Immersion
  1. 10. The Building and Blurring of Worlds: Sound, Space, and Complex Narrative Cinema
  2. Justin Horton
  3. pp. 185-203
  4. open access Download |
  1. 11. Beyond Immersion: Absorption, Saturation, and Overflow in the Building of Imaginary Worlds
  2. Mark J.P. Wolf
  3. pp. 204-214
  4. open access Download |
  1. 12. Zombie Escape and Survival Plans: Mapping the Transmedial World of the Dead
  2. Bernard Perron
  3. pp. 215-230
  4. open access Download |
  1. 13. MMORPG as Locally Realized Worlds of Action
  2. Laurent Di Filippo
  3. pp. 231-250
  4. open access Download |
  1. Section 4: Media as World-Building Devices
  1. 14. The Worries of the World(s): Cartoons and Cinema
  2. Karen Redrobe (formerly Beckman)
  3. pp. 251-271
  4. open access Download |
  1. 15. Linguistic Terrain and World Time: Chinese Media Theories and Their World Imaginations
  2. Victor Fan
  3. pp. 272-286
  4. open access Download |
  1. 16. The Worlds Align: Media Convergence and Complementary Storyworlds in Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World
  2. Dru Jeffries
  3. pp. 287-303
  4. open access Download |
  1. 17. World Building and Metafiction in Contemporary Comic Books: Metalepsis and Figurative Process of Graphic Fiction
  2. Denis Mellier
  3. pp. 304-318
  4. open access Download |
  1. Section 5: Appropriations and Fan Practices
  1. 18. The Monster at the End of This Book: Metalepsis, Fandom, and World Making in Contemporary TV Series
  2. Valentina Re
  3. pp. 319-342
  4. open access Download |
  1. 19. Traversing the “Whoniverse”: Doctor Who’s Hyperdiegesis and Transmedia Discontinuity/ Diachrony
  2. Matt Hills
  3. pp. 343-361
  4. open access Download |
  1. 20. Transmediaphilia, World Building, and the Pleasures of the Personal Digital Archive
  2. Jim Collins
  3. pp. 362-376
  4. open access Download |
  1. 21. The Politics of World Building: Heteroglossia in Janelle Monáe’s Afrofuturist WondaLand
  2. Dan Hassler-Forest
  3. pp. 377-392
  4. open access Download |
  1. Index
  2. pp. 393-396
  3. open access Download |

Additional Information

ISBN
9789048525317
Related ISBN
9789089647566
MARC Record
Download
OCLC
1111354422
Pages
380
Launched on MUSE
2019-08-04
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Back To Top

This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Without cookies your experience may not be seamless.