World Building : Transmedia, Fans, Industries (Paperback)

Introduction: Worlds, Today, Section 1: Theories of World Building, 1. The Aesthetics of Proliferation, 2. Building Science Fiction Worlds, 3. 'He Doesn’t Look Like Sherlock Holmes': The Truth Value and Existential Status of Fictional Worlds and their Characters, 4. 'Visible World': The Atlas as a Visual Form of Knowledge and Narrative Paradigm in Contemporary Art, Section 2: Economies of World Building, 5. A World of Disney: Building a Transmedia Storyworld for Mickey and his Friends, 6. World Building Logics and Copyright: the Dark Knight and the Great Detective, 7. Battleworlds: The Management of Multiplicity in the Media Industries, 8. Platform Producer Meets Game Master: On the Conditions for the Media Mix, 9. Narrative Ecosystems: a Multidisciplinary Approach to Media Worlds, Section 3: Immersion, 10. The Building and Blurring of Worlds: Sound, Space, and Complex Narrative Cinema, 11. Beyond Immersion: Absorption, Saturation, and Overflow in the Building of Imaginary Worlds, 12. Zombie Escape and Survival Plans: Mapping the Transmedial World of the Dead, 13. MMORPG as Locally Realized Worlds of Action, Section 4: Media as World Building Devices, 14. The Worries of the World(s): Cartoons and Cinema, 15. Linguistic Terrain and World Time: Chinese Media Theories and Their World Imaginations, 16. The Worlds Align: Media Convergence and Complementary Storyworlds in Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World, 17. World Building and Metafiction in Contemporary Comic Books: Metalepsis and Figurative Process of Graphic Fiction, Section 5: Appropriations and Fan Practices, 18. The Monster at the End of This Book: Metalepsis, Fandom and Worldmaking in Contemporary TV Series, 19. Traversing the 'Whoniverse': Doctor Who’s Hyperdiegesis and Transmedia Discontinuity/Diachrony, 20. Transmediaphilia, World Building, and the Pleasures of the Personal Digital Archive, 21. The Politics of World-building: Heteroglossia in Janelle Monae’s Afrofuturist WondaLand