Fantastic Transmedia

Narrative, Play and Memory Across Science Fiction and Fantasy Storyworlds

C. Harvey (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

238 Seiten

2015 | 1st ed. 2015
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-45500-3 (ISBN)

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Contemporary culture is packed with fantasy and science fiction storyworlds extending across multiple media platforms. This book explores the myriad ways in which imaginary worlds use media like films, novels, videogames, comic books, toys and increasingly user-generated content to captivate and energise contemporary audiences.

Colin B. Harvey is a writer, narrative designer and academic based at King's College, London, UK. His fiction includes licensed tie-in material for Doctor Who, Highlander and Judge Dredd and Dead Kelly for Abaddon Books set in the Afterblight shared storyworld. He has authored numerous videogame story design documents for Sony and presented and written extensively on the subject of transmedia storytelling.

1. Fantastic Transmedia 2. Stories and Worlds 3. Of Hobbits and Hulks: Adaptation Versus Narrative Expansion 4. Canon-Fodder: Halo and Horizontal Remembering 5. Configuring Memory in the Buffyverse 6. Material Myths and Nostalgia-Play in Star Wars 7. Fantastically Independent 8. Transmedia Memory Bibliography Index

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2016
Zusatzinfo	XII, 238 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Fantasy • franchises • independent transmedia • indie transmedia • Science Fiction • shared storyworlds • shared universes • Storyworlds • transmedia memory • transmedia narrative • transmedia play • Transmedia Storytelling
ISBN-10	1-349-45500-8 / 1349455008
ISBN-13	978-1-349-45500-3 / 9781349455003
Zustand	Neuware