Star Wars and the history of transmedia storytelling / edited by Sean Guynes and Dan Hassler-Forest
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Material Type | E-Book |
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Publisher | Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press |
Year | 2017 |
Language | English |
Size | 1 online resource (PDF, 329 pages) : illustrations |
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Notes | Star Wars has reached more than three generations of casual and hardcore fans alike, and as a result many of the producers of franchised Star Wars texts (films, television, comics, novels, games, and more) over the past four decades have been fans-turned-creators. Yet despite its dominant cultural and industrial positions, Star Wars has rarely been the topic of sustained critical work. Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling offers a corrective to this oversight by curating essays from a wide range of interdisciplinary scholars in order to bring Star Wars and its transmedia narratives more fully into the fold of media and cultural studies. The collection places Star Wars at the center of those studies' projects by examining video games, novels and novelizations, comics, advertising practices, television shows, franchising models, aesthetic and economic decisions, fandom and cultural responses, and other aspects of Star Wars and its world-building in their multiple contexts of production, distribution, and reception. In emphasizing that Star Wars is both a media franchise and a transmedia storyworld, Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling demonstrates the ways in which transmedia storytelling and the industrial logic of media franchising have developed in concert over the past four decades, as multinational corporations have become the central means for subsidizing, profiting from, and selling modes of immersive storyworlds to global audiences. By taking this dual approach, the book focuses on the interconnected nature of corporate production, fan consumption, and transmedia world-building. As such, this collection grapples with the historical, cultural, aesthetic, and political-economic implications of the relationship between media franchising and transmedia storytelling as they are seen at work in the world's most profitable transmedia franchise Open Access Undetermined Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-315) and index |
Authors | Hassler-Forest, Dan 1973- Guynes, Sean A. |
Subjects | LCSH:Electronic books BSH:Electronic books FREE:Criticism, interpretation, etc FREE:transmedia FREE:star wars FREE:popular culture FREE:science fiction FREE:media franchising LCSH:Star Wars films -- History and criticism All Subject Search FREE:Media studies FREE:Society and culture: general FREE:Society and social sciences Society and social sciences BISACSH:PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference All Subject Search BISACSH:SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General All Subject Search FREE:Star Wars films FREE:Erzählen FREE:Intermedialität FREE:Star wars |
Classification | DC:791 |
ID | ED00001417 |
ISBN | 9789048537433 |
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