Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds

This companion provides a definitive and cutting-edge guide to the study of imaginary and virtual worlds across a range of media, including literature, television, film, and games. From the Star Trek universe, Thomas More's classic Utopia, and J. R. R. Tolkien's Arda, to elaborate, user-created game worlds like Minecraft, contributors present interdisciplinary perspectives on authorship, world structure/design, and narrative. The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds offers new approaches to imaginary worlds as an art form and cultural phenomenon, explorations of the technical and creative dimensions of world-building, and studies of specific worlds and worldbuilders.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Mark J. P. Wolf is a Full Professor in the Communication Department at Concordia University, Wisconsin, USA. His books include Abstracting Reality, The Medium of the Video Game, Virtual Morality, The Video Game Explosion, Myst and Riven: The World of the D'ni, Before the Crash, Encyclopedia of Video Games, Building Imaginary Worlds, The LEGO Studies Reader, Video Games Around the World, and Revisiting Imaginary Worlds. He is also the founder of the Imaginary Worlds book series. With Bernard Perron, he is the co-editor of The Video Game Theory Reader 1 and 2, and the Landmark Video Game book series.

Zusammenfassung

The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds offers new approaches to imaginary worlds both as an art form and cultural phenomenon, explorations of the technical and creative dimensions of world-building, and studies of specific worlds and world-builders.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Mark Wolf, Mark (Concordia University Wisconsin Wolf
• Mitarbeit: Mark Wolf (Herausgeber), Mark J P Wolf (Herausgeber), Mark J. P. Wolf (Herausgeber), Wolf Mark (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 10.12.2019
• Thema: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte; Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik
• EAN: 9780367876302
• ISBN: 978-0-367-87630-2
• Anzahl Seiten: 468
• Serie: Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions
• Themen: History, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy, Humanities, Literary studies: general, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society, Narrative Theory, participatory media, paracosm analysis, invented languages, alternate history studies, interdisciplinary imaginary world research, ontological world rules