Dan Hassler-Forest
Biographic Data
| ID | 4044526 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dan Hassler-Forest |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dan |
| FAMILY NAME | Hassler-Forest |
| SIGNATURE | HASSLER-FOREST D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Science Fiction
Ask the average adult whether they like science fiction, and the answer will usually be “no.” But ask them whether they appreciate Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, or remember Stanley Kubrick’s groundbreaking film 2001: A Space Odyssey, or enjoy watching the TV series Black Mirror, and watch them perk up. As it is still most commonly perceived, science fiction (hereafter SF) is a term that remains tainted by its perceived association with child…
Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling
Introduction: "What Is This Strange World We've Come to?""Excuse me, master Luke, but what is this strange world we've come to?" "Beats me, 3PO.Seems like we've landed on some sort of ... comedy-variety show planet."Having just burst through a dressing room wall during the cold open of the February 29, 1980 episode of The Muppet Show, the "stars from Star Wars" maintained their in-character performances throughout this unusual episode, performing…
Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling
Star Wars has reached more than three generations of casual and hardcore fans alike, and as a result many of the producers of franchised Star Wars texts (films, television, comics, novels, games, and more) over the past four decades have been fans-turned-creators. Yet despite its dominant cultural and industrial positions, Star Wars has rarely been the topic of sustained critical work. Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling offers a…
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Politics
From Tolkien to Star Trek, from Game of Thrones to Battlestar Galactica, and from The Walking Dead to Janelle Monáe’s Afrofuturist concept albums, transmedia world-building offers us complex and immersive environments beyond capitalism. This book examines the ways in which these popular storyworlds offer tools for anticapitalist theory and practice. Building on Hardt and Negri’s theory of global capitalism, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Politics …
The Politics of Adaptation
In the age of globalization, digitization, and media convergence, traditional hierarchies between media are breaking down. This book offers new approaches to understanding the politics and their under
Politics of Adaptation
Of Iron Men and Green Monsters
We live in an age of cyborgs. The streets, trains, cars around us are populated by strange creatures whose intense engagement with technology is both reassuringly familiar and vaguely alarming: familiar, because most of us have come to feel like cyborgs ourselves, having come to rely on mobile technology for nearly every aspect of our lives, spending most if not all our waking hours ‘plugged in’ to an infinite network; and alarming, because this …
Capitalist Superheroes
In the same way that Stallone and Schwarzenegger played film heroes who came to embody the values of Ronald Reagans aggressive conservative agenda in the 1980s, the 21st-century film narratives of Batman, Spider-Man and Superman reflect the policies of the Bush Doctrine after 9/11. This book offers a groundbreaking study of the relationship that exists between post-9/11 American politics and the contemporary superhero movie phenomenon. No other H…
Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling
Star Wars has reached more than three generations of casual and hardcore fans alike, and as a result many of the producers of franchised Star Wars texts (films, television, comics, novels, games, and more) over the past four decades have been fans-turned-creators. Yet despite its dominant cultural and industrial positions, Star Wars has rarely been the topic of sustained critical work. Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling offers a…
Capitalist Superheroes
In the same way that Stallone and Schwarzenegger played film heroes who came to embody the values of Ronald Reagans aggressive conservative agenda in the 1980s, the 21st-century film narratives of Batman, Spider-Man and Superman reflect the policies of the Bush Doctrine after 9/11. This book offers a groundbreaking study of the relationship that exists between post-9/11 American politics and the contemporary superhero movie phenomenon. No other H…
The Politics of Adaptation
In the age of globalization, digitization, and media convergence, traditional hierarchies between media are breaking down. This book offers new approaches to understanding the politics and their under
Politics of Adaptation
Of Iron Men and Green Monsters
We live in an age of cyborgs. The streets, trains, cars around us are populated by strange creatures whose intense engagement with technology is both reassuringly familiar and vaguely alarming: familiar, because most of us have come to feel like cyborgs ourselves, having come to rely on mobile technology for nearly every aspect of our lives, spending most if not all our waking hours ‘plugged in’ to an infinite network; and alarming, because this …
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Politics
From Tolkien to Star Trek, from Game of Thrones to Battlestar Galactica, and from The Walking Dead to Janelle Monáe’s Afrofuturist concept albums, transmedia world-building offers us complex and immersive environments beyond capitalism. This book examines the ways in which these popular storyworlds offer tools for anticapitalist theory and practice. Building on Hardt and Negri’s theory of global capitalism, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Politics …
Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling
Star Wars has reached more than three generations of casual and hardcore fans alike, and as a result many of the producers of franchised Star Wars texts (films, television, comics, novels, games, and more) over the past four decades have been fans-turned-creators. Yet despite its dominant cultural and industrial positions, Star Wars has rarely been the topic of sustained critical work. Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling offers a…
Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling
Introduction: "What Is This Strange World We've Come to?""Excuse me, master Luke, but what is this strange world we've come to?" "Beats me, 3PO.Seems like we've landed on some sort of ... comedy-variety show planet."Having just burst through a dressing room wall during the cold open of the February 29, 1980 episode of The Muppet Show, the "stars from Star Wars" maintained their in-character performances throughout this unusual episode, performing…
Science Fiction
Ask the average adult whether they like science fiction, and the answer will usually be “no.” But ask them whether they appreciate Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, or remember Stanley Kubrick’s groundbreaking film 2001: A Space Odyssey, or enjoy watching the TV series Black Mirror, and watch them perk up. As it is still most commonly perceived, science fiction (hereafter SF) is a term that remains tainted by its perceived association with child…
Art (5 works) · Digital Games and Media (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction (3 works) · Fandom (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Media Studies (2 works)