World Building: Transmedia, Fans, Industries

Introduction 9
Worlds, Today
Marta Boni
Section 1 Theories of World Building
1. The Aesthetics of Proliferation 31
Marie-Laure Ryan
2. Building Science-Fiction Worlds 47
Paolo Bertetti
3. “He Doesn’t Look Like Sherlock Holmes” 62
The Truth Value and Existential Status of Fictional Worlds and their
Characters
Julien Lapointe
4. “Visible World” 77
The Atlas as a Visual Form of Knowledge and Narrative Paradigm in
Contemporary Art
Cristina Baldacci
Section 2 Economies of World Building
5. A World of Disney 93
Building a Transmedia Storyworld for Mickey and his Friends
Matthew Freeman
6. World-Building Logics and Copyright 109
The Dark Knight and the Great Detective
Roberta Pearson
7. Battleworlds 129
The Management of Multiplicity in the Media Industries
Derek Johnson
8. Platform Producer Meets Game Master 143
On the Conditions for the Media Mix
Marc Steinberg
9. Narrative Ecosystems 164
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Media Worlds
Veronica Innocenti and Guglielmo Pescatore
Section 3 Immersion
10. The Building and Blurring of Worlds 187
Sound, Space, and Complex Narrative Cinema
Justin Horton
11. Beyond Immersion 204
Absorption, Saturation, and Overflow in the Building of Imaginary
Worlds
Mark J.P. Wolf
12. Zombie Escape and Survival Plans 215
Mapping the Transmedial World of the Dead
Bernard Perron
13. MMORPG as Locally Realized Worlds of Action 231
Laurent Di Filippo
Section 4 Media as World-Building Devices
14. The Worries of the World(s) 253
Cartoons and Cinema
Karen Redrobe (formerly Beckman)
15. Linguistic Terrain and World Time 272
Chinese Media Theories and Their World Imaginations
Victor Fan
16. The Worlds Align 287
Media Convergence and Complementary Storyworlds in Marvel’s
Thor: The Dark World
Dru Jeffries
17. World Building and Metafiction in Contemporary Comic Books 304
Metalepsis and Figurative Process of Graphic Fiction
Denis Mellier
Section 5 Appropriations and Fan Practices
18. The Monster at the End of This Book 321
Metalepsis, Fandom, and World Making in Contemporary TV Series
Valentina Re
19. Traversing the “Whoniverse” 343
Doctor Who’s Hyperdiegesis and Transmedia Discontinuity/
Diachrony
Matt Hills
20. Transmediaphilia , World Building, and the Pleasures of the
Personal Digital Archive 362
Jim Collins
21. The Politics of World Building 377
Heteroglossia in Janelle Monáe’s Afrofuturist WondaLand
Dan Hassler-Forest
Index 393