Fiction Networks: The Emergence of Proprietary, Persistent, Large ...

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations...............................................................................................x
Chapter 1: Fiction Networks.................................................................................1
Media Infrastructures and Fiction ................................................................5
What is a Fiction Network? .......................................................................12
Forms at Play ............................................................................................14
Proprietorship............................................................................................26
Persistence ................................................................................................33
Expansion..................................................................................................43
Connection ................................................................................................46
Emergence and the Importance of Scale ....................................................50
Writers, Readers and Roles........................................................................55
Chapter 2: Genres, Fictional Worlds, and Fiction Networks ..............................65
Fiction in the Fiction Network...................................................................66
Genre and the Fiction Network..................................................................72
Technological Genres, Semiotic Genres, and Media..........................76
Topical Genres..................................................................................79
Reading the Fiction Network .....................................................................90
Chapter 3: Crises in the Comics Universe........................................................100
Crossover ................................................................................................104
Comics Representing Comics ..................................................................107
Flash of Two Worlds...............................................................................111
Functional Unrealities .............................................................................116
Co-Evolution of Universes: Continuity and Causality..............................119
Watchmen and Chronotopic Change in the DC Universe .........................122
Crisis on Infinite Earths ..........................................................................129
Reaction to Crisis....................................................................................136
Consumer, Creator...................................................................................138
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