Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling
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Sean Guynes is a PhD student in the Department of English at Michigan State University, where he writes and teaches about American science fiction, popular culture, and comics. His dissertation is a critical cultural history of the Futurians. Dan Hassler-Forest is the author and editor of several books, including The Rise and Reason of Comics and Graphic Literature, Capitalist Superheroes, The Politics of Adaptation, Transmedia, and Science Fiction, Fantasy and Politics. As an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam, he became involved in the student protests and was among the founding members of staff platform ReThink UvA."<i>Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling</i> is an important addition to an established and growing discourse... all of the chapters begin new conversations or carry on some already established in the field. In addition to these chapters as contributions to the discourse, their brevity make them incredibly useful in a variety of classes, such as digital storytelling, film studies, or a special topics class on fandom."<br /> - Jason W. Ellis, <i>Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts</i>, November 2019<br /><br />"The essays included here are thought-provoking and crucial. They cover a great deal of the <i>Star Wars</i> media universe, from its video games to its toys, from its fan experiences to its novelistic adaptations. Beyond the inherent interest these topics should have for fans and scholars, the overall volume does a very nice job of shifting the discussion of the <i>Star Wars</i> franchise away from an engagement with the films“one that tends to ignore how the vast bulk of STAR WARS-related texts do not come from the big screen“to an engagement with the multiple media platforms that Lucasfilm and Disney use in constructing the storyworld and a deployment of diverse methodologies required of such a shift in object."<br />- Benjamin J. Robertson, University of Colorado, Boulder, <i>Science Fiction Studies</i>, Volume 45 (2018)<br /><br />"This wide-ranging collection, an instalment in the <i>Transmedia: Participatory Culture and Media Convergence</i> series, contains several fascinating analyses of the extensive Star Wars franchise. Alongside discussions of the films, novelizations, video games, radio adaptations, and comics are chapterson less well-represented areas in studies of transmedia storytelling, such as fan gatherings, toys, and memorabilia exhibitions. This variety is one of the volume’s strengths, keeping the subject matter fresh, and offering the opportunity to rigorously challenge the elasticity of transmedia’s theoretical principles."<br />- Robert Yeates, <i>Extrapolation</i> (2019)