17. World Building and Metafiction in Contemporary Comic Books

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Introduction 9
4. Section 1. Theories of World Building
5. 1. The Aesthetics of Proliferation 31
6. 2. Building Science-Fiction Worlds 47
7. 3. “He Doesn’t Look Like Sherlock Holmes” 62
8. 4. “Visible World” 77
9. Section 2. Economies of World Building
10. 5. A World of Disney 93
11. 6. World-Building Logics and Copyright 109
12. 7. Battleworlds 129
13. 8. Platform Producer Meets Game Master 143
14. 9. Narrative Ecosystems 164
15. Section 3. Immersion
16. 10. The Building and Blurring of Worlds 187
17. 11. Beyond Immersion 204
18. 12. Zombie Escape and Survival Plans 215
19. 13. MMORPG as Locally Realized Worlds of Action 231
20. Section 4. Media as World-Building Devices
21. 14. The Worries of the World(s) 253
22. 15. Linguistic Terrain and World Time 272
23. 16. The Worlds Align 287
24. 17. World Building and Metafiction in Contemporary Comic Books 304
25. Section 5. Appropriations and Fan Practices
26. 18. The Monster at the End of This Book 321
27. 19. Traversing the “Whoniverse” 343
28. 20. Transmediaphilia , World Building, and the Pleasures of the Personal Digital Archive 362
29. 21. The Politics of World Building 377
30. Index 393