{"product_id":"im-perfection-subverted-reloaded-and-networked-utopian-discourse-across-media-9783631628485","title":"(Im)perfection Subverted, Reloaded and Networked:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis study explores various intersections between the traditional utopian discourse and such media as music, comic books, TV series, feature films, documentaries, fan fiction, computer games and web projects, bringing to focus the transformative role of the media used for the presentation and implementation of utopian projects. It shows both the variety of forms of expression of utopian impulses and the relocation and reinterpretation of utopia in the contemporary culture of convergence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e(Im)perfection Subverted \u003c\/i\u003eis a well-conceived, thought-provoking and original volume that will be of interest to scholars and students working in media studies, literary and cultural studies, baroque studies and cultural history. The collection builds on several traditions of critical thinking on the subject of utopianism and dystopia, on the one hand, and recent media theory on the other. This dual focus is one of the major strengths of the volume and a key organizing principle, from the competent editor’s introduction to the final piece on «playable dystopias» in interactive game media. Readers will be equally impressed by the sustained quality of the essays and the expansive scope of the collection, encompassing a wide array of media products from cultural contexts as different as post-World War II U.S. and Poland and today’s globalized «culture of convergence». (David Castillo, SUNY Buffalo)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Artur Blaim:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e«Nowhere Plans for Nobody»: Constructing Utopia in Popular Music – Barbara Klonowska: Coming through Dystopia: Marjane Satrapi’s \u003ci\u003ePersepolis\u003c\/i\u003e – Andrzej Sławomir Kowalczyk: «Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!» The BBC Children’s Animation \u003ci\u003eBob the Builder, Project: Build It \u003c\/i\u003eas an Ecotopia – Katarzyna Pisarska: Science, Power and Utopia in the \u003ci\u003eAppleseed\u003c\/i\u003e Universe – Marta Komsta: Destination - Eutopia: Nowa Huta in Polish Documentaries – Patrycja Podgajna: Slapstick as a Utopian Weapon in Juliusz Machulski’s \u003ci\u003eEmbassy\u003c\/i\u003e – Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga: The City in 3D: Dystopian Past, Utopian Moment – Justyna Galant:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThe Carnivalesque Sense of the Armageddon: Richard Kelly’s Menippea – Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eFan Fiction and Dystopian Classics: Utopianising Disruptions – Elżbieta Perkowska-Gawlik:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThe Taming of Dystopia in Progress: A Collage of Narrative Strategies in Barry J. Gardner’s Webcomic\u003ci\u003e Hyperbolic Dystopia\u003c\/i\u003e – Zofia Kolbuszewska: Utopia, Affective Turn, Remediation and Transmediality: From the Dystopian Electronic World of \u003ci\u003eWe Are The Strange \u003c\/i\u003eto the Utopia of the International Community Support for an Alternative Filmmaker – Mateusz Liwiński: Nostalgia for Dystopia: Critical Nostalgia in Lucas Pope’s \u003ci\u003ePapers, Please\u003c\/i\u003e – Grzegorz Maziarczyk: Playable Dystopia? Interactivity and Narrativity in \u003ci\u003eBioShock \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBioShock Infinite\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Peter Lang AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51044230529367,"sku":"9783631628485","price":54.63,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783631628485.jpg?v=1750960943","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/im-perfection-subverted-reloaded-and-networked-utopian-discourse-across-media-9783631628485","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}