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Dan Hassler-Forest
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…
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Dan Hassler-forest
The blockbuster superhero movie: popular entertainment or capitalist propaganda? This book investigates the 21st-century superhero’s underlying political agenda.
Explores how Janelle Monae’s work has connected different media platforms to strengthen and enhance new movements in art, theory, and politics. The considers not only Monae’s groundbreaking albums, but also…
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This book offers an in-depth analysis of Janelle Monae’s Dirty Computer, an Afrofuturist project that appeared simultaneously as a concept album and a visual album or emotion picture in spring…
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A collection of essays examining comic books and graphic novels. The essays place the work in a cultural context, addressing theory and terminology, adaptations of comic books, the superhero genre…
This series has been designed to offer students and researchers a compact means of orientation in their study of Anglophone literary texts. Each volume will introduce readers to current concepts…
This collection grapples with the historical, cultural, aesthetic, and political-economic implications of the relationship between media franchising and transmedia storytelling as they are seen at work in the world’s most…
