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Unpacking the popularity and metaphor of the multiverse in media and popular culture, this book explores how the concept of alternate realities and parallel worlds has portaled into the mainstream.
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Introduction
Paul Booth 1. The Irresistible Rise of the Multiverse in the fin-de-Millennium Media Zeitgeist
Tim Butler Garrett 2. 'The Unsupportable Pride of Mankind': Seventeenth-Century Utopias, Humility, and the Multiverse
Aglaia Maretta Venters 3. Depictions of the Multiverse as a Labyrinth, a Cultural Icon Between Science, Humanities, and Fiction
Angélica Cabrera Torrecilla 4. A Creative Deconstruction of the Cultural Strands in the Multiple Timelines of
The Flash (2023): Introduction to the Online Resource "Multiversal Spaghetti"
Chris Gerrard 5. The Multiverse as a Stylistic Structure
Sem Devillart 6. Capitalism and the Multiverse: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Socio-Economic Influence on Cosmological Concepts
Marija Adela Gjorgjioska and Ana Tomi¿i¿ 7. The Non-Binary Multiverse Poem, Or Friday August 25th, 2023
Dusty Michael Perez 8. What Does It Mean To Be Eternally Alone in the Multiverse?
Adalberto Fernandes 9. Lux in Tenebris
Maria Faust 10. Tales of Two Multiverses: From Fan Service/Productivity to Shared Inflationary Fantasies
Matt Hills 11. It's a Trip. It's Got a Funky Beat: Exploring the Sonic Multiverse through Hip Hop Sampling
Ian Sinnett 12. The Shared Multiversal Power of K-pop Lore Videos and Videographic Criticism
Louisa Ellen Stein 13. The Multiverse of Madness
Nev Fountain 14. Young Forever(?): Looping Time and Fractured Futures in BTS's Bangtan Universe
Lauren R. O'Connor 15. "The Infinite Knowledge and Power of the Multiverse": Intersectionality as the Multiverse in
Everything Everywhere All at Once Shayna Maskell 16. Marvel's Multiverse of Madness: The Implications of Alternative Realities, Variants, and Doppelgängers within the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rob McLaughlin 17. Where's Wanda? Collage and Collapse
Teresa Forde 18. Expanding the Spider-Verse: Infinite Possibility and Fan Plausibility
Lore Whittemore 19. Turtleverse!: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Multiverse in Media as a Tool to Explore Diverse Genres
Ricardo Victoria-Uribe and Nazario Robles-Bastida Part III: Multiversal Constructs Across Literature and Games 20. The Comic Book Multiverse: Creative Playground / Corporate Plaything
Blair Davis 21. Multiversality in Children's Picture Books: Portals to Many Worlds
Ondine Park 22. The Atlas, the Resurrections, the Rising, and the Time War: Multiverse(ions) of Love from Four Fictional Universes
Rebecca Gibson 23. Forget-Me-Not
Rebecca Johns 24. Finding Yourself: Multiversal Identity Crisis in Ted Chiang's
Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom Amy Coles 25. On Wormholes, Link Cables, and the Limitations of Transmedia: Fan Interpretations of Trans-Spatial Discourses in
Pokémon Video Games
Ross Garner 26. Playing Across Planes with the D&D Multiverse
Maria K. Alberto 27. Cards Against Monstrosity: The Arkham Horror Multiverse
David Scott Diffrient 28. Teaching the American Multiverse: Power, Agency, and Identity in an Age of Consumer Choice
Dustin Abnet 29. Reaffirming Japanese Identity through the Multiverse: A Response to Post-3.11 Uncertainties from
Your Name Erica Ka-yan Poon 30. How to Travel the Multiverse: A Text World Theory Guide
Matthew Voice 31. The Multiverse of Fanfiction
Julia Neugarten 32. "Love Live the Empire!": Star Trek's Mirror Universe as a Form of Fan Fiction
Lincoln Geraghty
Info autore
Paul Booth is Professor at DePaul University, USA, where he teaches media and popular culture. He is the author or editor of fifteen books, including
Board Games as Media (2021),
A Fan Studies Primer (with Rebecca Williams, 2021), and
Adventures Across Space and Time: A Doctor Who Reader (with Matt Hills, Joy Piedmont, and Tansy Rayner Roberts, 2023).
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Unpacking the popularity and metaphor of the multiverse in media and popular culture, this book explores how the concept of alternate realities and parallel worlds has portaled into the mainstream.
