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The World of DC Comics - Andrew Friedenthal

The World of DC Comics

Buch | Softcover
118 Seiten
2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-09270-6 (ISBN)
CHF 33,15 inkl. MwSt
The first sustained study of the DC Comics Multiverse, this book explores its history, meanings, and lasting influence. The multiverse is a unique exercise in world-building: a series of parallel and interactive worlds with a cohesive cosmology, developed by various creators over fifty years.
The first sustained study of the DC Comics Multiverse, this book explores its history, meanings, and lasting influence. The multiverse is a unique exercise in world-building: a series of parallel and interactive worlds with a cohesive cosmology, developed by various creators over more than 50 years.



In examining DC's unique worlds and characters, the book illustrates the expansive potential of a multiverse, full of characters, histories, geographies, religions, ethnographies, and more, and allowing for expressions of legacy, multiplicity, and play that have defined much of DC Comics' output. It shows how a multiverse can be a vital, energizing part of any imaginary world, and argues that students and creators of such worlds would do well to explore the implications and complexities of this world-building technique.



Andrew J. Friedenthal has crafted a groundbreaking, engaging, and thoughtful examination of the multiverse, of interest to scholars and enthusiasts of not just comics studies, but also the fields of media studies and imaginary world studies.

Andrew J. Friedenthal is an independent scholar, writer, and critic living in Austin, Texas. His previous publications include Retcon Games: Retroactive Continuity and the Hyperlinking of America, chapters in the collections Crossing Boundaries in Graphic Narrative: Essays on Forms and Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms, and articles in the scholarly journals ImageTexT and The Journal of Comics & Culture. Additionally, he is a regular theater critic for the Austin American-Statesman and pop culture columnist for the online magazine Sightlines.

1. A Brief History of the Multiverse 2. The Multiverse in Crisis 3. Cartographers of the Multiverse 4. Beyond the Multiverse

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Imaginary Worlds
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 131 g
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Informatik Web / Internet
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-032-09270-X / 103209270X
ISBN-13 978-1-032-09270-6 / 9781032092706
Zustand Neuware
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