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Chapter Title
Transmediating the Whedonverse(s): Essays on Texts, Paratexts, and Metatexts
Files
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Document Type
Book
Editors
Juliette C. Kitchens, Julie L. Hawk
Description
This book explores the transmedial nature of the storyworlds created by and/or affiliated with television auteur, writer, and filmmaker, Joss Whedon. As such, the book addresses the ways in which Whedon’s storyworlds, or ‘verses, employ transmedia, both intrinsically as texts and extrinsically as these texts are consumed and, in some cases, reworked, by audiences. This collection walks readers through fan and scholar-fan engagement, intrinsic textual transmediality, and Whedon’s lasting influence on televisual and transmedia texts. In closing, the editors argue for the need to continue research into how the Whedonverse(s) lend themselves to transmedial study, engage audiences in ways that take advantage of multiple media, and encourage textual internalization of these engagements within audiences.
ISBN
978-3-030-24615-0
Publication Date
2019
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
City
Cham, Switzerland
Keywords
audience, engagement, text
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Social and Behavioral Sciences
First Page
1
Last Page
210
NSUWorks Citation
Kitchens, J. C., & Hawk, J. L. (2019). Transmediating the Whedonverse(s): Essays on Texts, Paratexts, and Metatexts., 1-210. Retrieved from https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_facbooks/151