Transmediating the Whedonverse(s) Essays on Texts, Paratexts, and Metatexts /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kitchens, Juliette C. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Hawk, Julie L. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Popular Culture.; Film genres.; Communication.; United States-Study and teaching.; Popular Culture .; Genre.; Media and Communication.; American Culture.

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 extrinsic...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Exploring a Whedonverse, the Whedonverses, and the Whedonverse(s): The Shape of Transmedia Storytelling in Joss Whedon's World(s)
• Chapter 2: Un-Warren-ted: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Transgressive Fandom
• Chapter 3: History Has Its Eyes on the Greatest Hellmouth in the World: Transmedia, Hint Fiction, and Mashup Memes
• Chapter 4: Transmediating the Whedon Classroom
• Chapter 5: "This is the next me": The Evolution of AI in the Whedonverse
• Chapter 6: "You're not the source of me": Navigating and Mastering the Transmedial at the End of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Fourth Season
• Chapter 7: "To Speak Against an Opponent Eloquently Makes You an Unusual Personage": Joss Whedon as Deleuzian 'Minor Writer'
• Chapter 8: The Transtextual Road Trip: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, and Televisual Forebears
• Chapter 9: A Brief Note on Looking Forward
• Index. .