Reboot culture : comics, film, transmedia / William Proctor.
Proctor, William, 1974- author.
2023
PN1995
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Title Reboot culture : comics, film, transmedia / William Proctor.
Author Proctor, William, 1974- author.
ISBN 9783031409127 (electronic bk.)
3031409124 (electronic bk.)
9783031409110
3031409116
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40912-7
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (282 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-40912-7 doi
Call Number PN1995
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.4375
Summary William Proctor interrogates reboot culture like hes leading a courtroom drama: marshalling evidence, challenging assumptions and exposing the careless thinking of previous work (including my own) through a series of fascinating case studies. [] Passionate, provocative and pedantic, this book provides an invigorating experience and a fierce, focused argument that should inspire media students and set a spark to scholarly debate. Will Brooker, Professor of Film and Cultural Studies, Kingston University, London A very enjoyable, readable ride on the history of film and comic reboots from an engaging academic perspective, including related phenomena like retconning, re-launches, spin-offs, and more. Mark J. P. Wolf, Professor in the Communication Department at Concordia University, Wisconsin Since the release of Christopher Nolans Batman Begins in 2005, there has been a pronounced surge in alternative uses of the computer term reboot, a surge that has witnessed the term deployed in new contexts and new signifying practices, involving politics, fashion, sex, nature, sport, business, and media. As a narrative concept, however, reboot terminology remains widely misused, misunderstood, and misinterpreted across popular, journalistic, and academic discourses, being recklessly and relentlessly solicited as a way to describe a broad range of narrative operations and contradictory groupings, including prequels, sequels, adaptations, revivals, re-launches, generic refreshes, and enactments of retroactive continuity. Adopting an inter-disciplinary approach that fuses cultural studies, media archaeology, and discursive approaches, this book challenges existing scholarship on the topic by providing new frameworks and taxonomies that illustrate key differences between reboots and other strategies of regeneration, helping to spotlight the various ways in which the culture industries mine their intellectual properties in distinct and novel ways to present them anew. Reboot Culture: Comics, Film, Transmedia is the first academic study to critically explore and interrogate the reboot phenomenon as it emerged historically to describe superhero comics that sought to jettison existing narrative continuity in order to begin again from scratch. William Proctor is Associate Professor in Popular Culture at Bournemouth University, UK.
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: A New Terminology? Discourses, Distinctions, Definitions
Chapter 3: Planet of the Capes: Archaeology of the Silver Age Comic Book Reboot
Chapter 4: Crisis Management: Archaeology of the Pre-Boot
Chapter 5: Superman Begins: Archaeology of John Byrnes Man of Steel Reboot
Chapter 6: The Darkest Knight: Archaeology of the Batman in Comics and Film
Chapter 7: Conclusion.

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