Matthew Freeman

Everything I Love Restored

Trying to Take a Nap

Tiffany Jana

The authors use vivid stories and activities to uncover hidden biases.--

Building Authentic Relationships Across Differences

Overcoming Bias

William Proctor

This book offers an exploration of these national and cultural systems of transmediality around the world, showing how national cultures are informing transmediality in different countries. The book spans twelve countries, looking across the UK, Spain, Portugal, France, Estonia, USA, Canada, Colombia, Brazil, Japan, India, and Russia.

Transmedia Earth

Global Convergence Cultures

An accessible introduction to the world of The Walking Dead, this book looks across platforms and analytical frameworks to characterize the fictional world of The Walking Dead and how its audiences make use of it. From comics and television to social media, apps, and mobile games, utilizing concepts derived from literary studies, media studies, history, anthropology, and religious studies, Matthew Freeman examines the functions and affordances of new digital platforms. In doing so, he establishes a new transdisciplinary framework for analyzing imaginary worlds across multiple media platforms, bolstering the critical arena of world-building studies by providing a greater array of vocabulary, concepts, and approaches. The World of The Walking Dead is an engaging exploration of stories, their platforms, and their reception, ideal for students and scholars of world-building, film and TV studies, new media, and everything in-between.

The World of the Walking Dead

This guidebook, aimed at those interested in studying media industries, provides direction in ways best suited to collaborative dialogue between media scholars and media professionals. While the study of media industries is a focal point at many universities around the world – promising, as it might, rich dialogues between academia and industry – understandings of the actual methodologies for researching the media industries remain vague. What are the best methods for analysing the workings of media industries – and how does one navigate those methods in light of complex deterrents like copyright and policy, not to mention the difficulty of gaining access to the media industries? Responding to these questions, Industrial Approaches to Media offers practical, theoretical, and ethical principles for the field of media industry studies, providing its first full methodological exploration. It features key scholars such as Henry Jenkins, Michele Hilmes, Paul McDonald and Alisa Perren.

A Methodological Gateway to Industry Studies

Industrial Approaches to Media

Tracing the industrial emergence of transmedia storytelling—typically branded a product of the contemporary digital media landscape—this book provides a historicised intervention into understandings of how fictional stories flow across multiple media forms. Through studies of the storyworlds constructed for The Wizard of Oz, Tarzan, and Superman, the book reveals how new developments in advertising, licensing, and governmental policy across the twentieth century enabled historical systems of transmedia storytelling to emerge, thereby providing a valuable contribution to the growing field of transmedia studies as well as to understandings of media convergence, popular culture, and historical media industries.

Early Twentieth-Century Transmedia Story Worlds

Historicising Transmedia Storytelling

"There have been, and will be again, many destruction's of mankind arising out of many causes; the greatest have been brought about by the agencies of fire and water, and other lesser ones by innumerable other causes" - Plato Since time began, mankind has looked to the dark heavens, and the stars, planets and moons were once named as gods. From Africa, Asia, Europe and the America's - the ancients tell their tales in layers of metaphor, with actors disguised under many different names - like a secret code. The ancient Sumerians recorded the rule of kings on clay tablets - the Sumerian Kings List, a similar Egyptian document exists called the Turin Kings List. The Greeks spoke of four or five 'Great Ages of Man' divided by cataclysms. Mesoamerican myths also include four or five Great Ages, in myths called 'The Four Suns', and 'The Five Suns'. Sanskrit texts include four 'Great Ages' in the same fashion. Greek myths include references to constellations of the Zodiac, the Hindu's give periods of time for each Great Age, time is recorded on both the Sumerian and Egyptian lists. By examining these records, comparing constellations, and astronomical alignments of megalithic structures - the secret code has been unlocked. According to the ancients, civilization has been repeatedly destroyed by a hail of heavenly judgment. By cosmic lightning, meteor impacts, global firestorms and floods, continent shattering earthquakes and mountain razing tempests. 'Cataclysms of the Zodiac' uncovers astonishing new information, and brings together previous research, such as I. Velikovsky's (Worlds in Collision), David Talbott's (The Saturn Myth), and Graham Hancock's (The Mystery of the Sphinx). It confirms a cataclysmic prehistory for human civilization. According to the ancients, mans official history began in 127,440BC.

The Lost Ages

Cataclysms of the Zodiac

The World of The Walking Dead

Today’s convergent media industries readily produce stories that span multiple media, telling the tales of superheroes across comics, film and television, inviting audiences to participate in the popular universes across cinema, novels, the Web, and more. This transmedia phenomenon may be a common strategy in Hollywood’s blockbuster fiction factory, tied up with digital marketing and fictional world-building, but transmediality is so much more than global movie franchises. Different cultures around the world are now making new and often far less commercial uses of transmediality, applying this phenomenon to the needs and structures of a nation and re-thinking it in the form of cultural, political and heritage projects. This book offers an exploration of these national and cultural systems of transmediality around the world, showing how national cultures – including politics, people, heritage, traditions, leisure and so on – are informing transmediality in different countries. The book spans four continents and twelve countries, looking across the UK, Spain, Portugal, France, Estonia, USA, Canada, Colombia, Brazil, Japan, India, and Russia.

Control, Conquer, and Prevail! Everybody's biased. The truth is, we all harbor unconscious assumptions that can get in the way of our good intentions and keep us from building authentic relationships with people different from ourselves. Tiffany Jana and Matthew Freeman use vivid stories and fun (yes, fun!) exercises and activities to help us reflect on our personal experiences and uncover how our hidden biases are formed. By becoming more self-aware, we can control knee-jerk reactions, conquer fears of the unknown, and prevail over closed-mindedness. In the end, Jana and Freeman's central message is that you are not the problem—but you can be the solution.

Building Authentic Relationships across Differences

Renira Rampazzo Gambarato

Around the globe, people now engage with media content across multiple platforms, following stories, characters, worlds, brands and other information across a spectrum of media channels. This transmedia phenomenon has led to the burgeoning of transmedia studies in media, cultural studies and communication departments across the academy. The Routledge Companion to Transmedia Studies is the definitive volume for scholars and students interested in comprehending all the various aspects of transmediality. This collection, which gathers together original articles by a global roster of contributors from a variety of disciplines, sets out to contextualize, problematize and scrutinize the current status and future directions of transmediality, exploring the industries, arts, practices, cultures, and methodologies of studying convergent media across multiple platforms.

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