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Cinema as a worldbuilding machine in the digital era : essay on multiverse films and tv series

Title: Cinema as a worldbuilding machine in the digital era : essay on multiverse films and tv series / Alain Boillat.; translated by Achilles Papakonstantis; translation supervision by Ilias Dimopoulos.
Author: Boillat, Alain
Publication: New Barnet, Herts : John Libbey Publishing, [2022]

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x, 337 pages : illustrations (some colour); 23 cm

Summary

"This essay examines the primacy of worldbuilding in the age of CGI, transmedia practices and "high concept" fiction by studying the principles that govern the creation of a multiverse in a wide range of film and TV productions. Emphasis is placed on Hollywood sci-fi movies and their on-screen representation of imaginary machines that mirror the film medium, following in the tradition of Philip K. Dick's writings and the cyberpunk culture. A typology of worlds is established, as well as a number of analytical tools for assessing the impact of the coexistence of two or more worlds on the narrative structure, the style (uses of color, editing practices), the generic affiliation (or hybridity), the seriality and the discourse produced by a given film (particularly in fictions linked to post-9/11 fantasies). Among the various titles examined, the reader is offered a detailed analysis of the Resident Evil film series, Total Recall and its remake, Dark City, the Matrix trilogy, Avatar, Source Code and other time-loop films, TRON and its sequel, Christopher Nolan's Tenet, and several TV shows - most notably HBO's Westworld, but also Sliders, Lost, Fringe and Counterpart." -- publisher's description

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Worldbuilding in the age of digital (trans)media -- 2. Immersive sci-fi machines: worlds, genres, and seriality -- 3. Film diegesis and multiverse -- 4. Worldbuilding and film style -- 5. Cyberspace: the simulated world of the "Matrix".

Call Number

MFL 23-3540

ISBN

9780861967490
0861967496
9780861969814 (canceled/invalid)
9780861969821 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1285494306

Author

Boillat, Alain, author.

Title

Cinema as a worldbuilding machine in the digital era : essay on multiverse films and tv series / Alain Boillat.; translated by Achilles Papakonstantis; translation supervision by Ilias Dimopoulos.

Publisher

New Barnet, Herts : John Libbey Publishing, [2022]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Papakonstantis, Achilleas, translator.

Dimopoulos, Ilias, translator.

Research Call Number

MFL 23-3540

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