Dan Hassler-Forest

Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Politics

Transmedia World-Building Beyond Capitalism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From Tolkien to Star Trek and from Game of Thrones to The Walking Dead, imaginary worlds in fantastic genres offer highly detailed political worlds beyond capitalism. This book examines the complex ways in which these popular storyworlds offer valuable conceptual tools for anti-capitalist participatory politics.

Produktdetails

• Radical Cultural Studies
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 561g
• ISBN-13: 9781783484928
• ISBN-10: 1783484926
• Artikelnr.: 42813446

Autorenporträt

Dan Hassler-Forest is Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Utrecht University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1. Imaginary Empires: Transmedia World-building and Global Capitalism
2. World-building and Convergence Culture: From Imperialism to Empire
3. Fantastical Capitalism and Post-ideological World-building
4. Revolutionary Storyworlds and Post-democratic Capitalism
5. Beyond Capitalism: Posthuman Storyworlds
6. "Post"-script
Bibliography
Index