World Building : Transmedia, Fans, Industries / Marta Boni.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boni, Marta, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (398 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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. By exploring the concept of worlds from theoretical and practical perspectives, this book puts forward a unique and original starting point for rethinking media theory, going beyond the notion of communication and understanding the role of worlds in interaction rituals as well as the building of values and meaning in contemporary society. In recent years, due to digital distribution and the integration of social networking and entertainment content, viewing strategies and narrative forms are undergoing important changes. Notably, we are faced with the rise of multi- platform conglomerates, in which film, television, Internet, graphic novels, toys, and virtual environments create heterogeneous yet compact universes, recognizable as brands and having a well-defined semiotic identity. Scholars are looking for new theoretical tools to understand the role of contemporary new media in these phenomena and the increasingly central place that viewers hold in exploring, mapping, interpreting and expanding story worlds. On the one hand, Internet networks are increasingly studied as the environment for the emergence of forms of consumption through fragments. As Henry Jenkins recently underlined, media become spreadable (Jenkins, Ford, Green 2013). On the other, the observation of production practices in the contemporary media sphere shows that, instead of being only fluid and ephemeral elements, media fragments sometimes converge in persistent and heterogeneous spaces built from multiple contributions and comparable to worlds. Media creators don't merely forge stories or characters. Instead, they build worlds: fictional worlds, character worlds, alternative worlds...

Contents:

Section 1 Theories of World Building

1 The Aesthetics of Proliferation / Marie-Laure Ryan Ryan, Marie-Laure 31

2 Building Science-Fiction Worlds / Paolo Bertetti Bertetti, Paolo 47

3 "He Doesn't Look Like Sherlock Holmes": The Truth Value and Existential Status of Fictional Worlds and their Characters / Julien Lapointe Lapointe, Julien 62

4 "Visible World": The Atlas as a Visual Form of Knowledge and Narrative Paradigm in Contemporary Art / Cristina Baldacci Baldacci, Cristina 77

Section 2 Economies of World Building

5 A World of Disney: Building a Transmedia Storyworld for Mickey and his Friends / Matthew Freeman Freeman, Matthew 93

6 World-Building Logics and Copyright: The Dark Knight and the Great Detective / Roberta Pearson Pearson, Roberta 109

7 Battleworlds: The Management of Multiplicity in the Media Industries / Derek Johnson Johnson, Derek 129

8 Platform Producer Meets Game Master: On the Conditions for the Media Mix / Marc Steinberg Steinberg, Marc 143

9 Narrative Ecosystems: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Media Worlds / Veronica Innocenti Innocenti, Veronica, Gugtielmo Pescatore Pescatore, Gugtielmo 164

Section 3 Immersion

10 The Building and Blurring of Worlds: Sound, Space, and Complex Narrative Cinema / Justin Horton Horton, Justin 187

11 Beyond Immersion: Absorption, Saturation, and Overflow in the Building of Imaginary Worlds / Mark J.P. Wolf Wolf, Mark J.P. 204

12 Zombie Escape and Survival Plans: Mapping the Transmedial World of the Dead / Bernard Perron Perron, Bernard 215

13 MMORPG as Locally Realized Worlds of Action / Laurent Di Filippo Filippo, Laurent Di 231

Section 4 Media as World-Building Devices

14 The Worries of the World(s): Cartoons and Cinema / Karen Redrobe (formerly Beckman) Redrobe, Karen, (formerly Beckman) 253

15 Linguistic Terrain and World Time: Chinese Media Theories and Their World Imaginations / Victor Fan Fan, Victor 272

16 The Worlds Align: Media Convergence and Complementary Storyworlds in Marvel's Thor: The Dark World / Dru Jeffries Jeffries, Dru 287

17 World Building and Metafiction in Contemporary Comic Books: Metalepsis and Figurative Process of Graphic Fiction / Denis Mellier Mellier, Denis 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 Re, Valentina 321

19 Traversing the "Whoniverse": Doctor Who's Hyperdiegesis and Transmedia Discontinuity/Diachrony / Matt Hills Hills, Matt 343

20 Transmediaphilia, World Building, and the Pleasures of the Personal Digital Archive / Jim Collins Collins, Jim 362

21 The Politics of World Building: Heteroglossia in Janelle Monáe's Afrofuturist WondaLand / Dan Hassler-Forest Hassler-Forest, Dan 377.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 102577

ISBN:

9789089647566

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access