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Transmediating the Whedonverse(s): Essays on Texts, Paratexts, and Metatexts
CAHSS Faculty Books and Book Chapters
  • Juliette C Kitchens, Nova Southeastern University
  • Julie L Hawk, University of West Georgia
Document Type
Book
ISBN
978-3-030-24615-0
Publication Date
1-1-2019
Editors
Juliette C. Kitchens, Julie L. Hawk
Keywords
  • audience,
  • engagement,
  • text
Description

This book explores the transmedial nature of the storyworlds created by and/or affiliated with television auteur, writer, and filmmaker, Joss Whedon. As such, the book addresses the ways in which Whedon’s storyworlds, or ‘verses, employ transmedia, both intrinsically as texts and extrinsically as these texts are consumed and, in some cases, reworked, by audiences. This collection walks readers through fan and scholar-fan engagement, intrinsic textual transmediality, and Whedon’s lasting influence on televisual and transmedia texts. In closing, the editors argue for the need to continue research into how the Whedonverse(s) lend themselves to transmedial study, engage audiences in ways that take advantage of multiple media, and encourage textual internalization of these engagements within audiences.

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Citation Information
Juliette C Kitchens and Julie L Hawk. Transmediating the Whedonverse(s): Essays on Texts, Paratexts, and Metatexts. Cham, Switzerland(2019) p. 1 - 210
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/juliette-kitchens/27/