"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 fif...

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Main Author:	Friedenthal, Andrew J. ca. 20./21. Jh (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York ; London Routledge 2019
Series:	Imaginary worlds
Subjects:	DC Comics, Inc. Comic DC Comics, Inc Comic books, strips, etc / United States / History and criticism Imaginary places in literature Comic books, strips, etc United States Criticism, interpretation, etc
Online Access:	Klappentext
Summary:	"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 fifty 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 ground-breaking, 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."--
Physical Description:	ix, 108 Seiten
ISBN:	9780815370574 0815370571