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Will Brooker - Reality Crisis, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

Reality Crisis

Av Will Brooker

633 kr

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Beskrivning
Reality Crisis explores how the multiverse has evolved from a science fiction convention into a framework for understanding contemporary culture, examining alternate realities, competing truths, and multiple versions of the self across entertainment, politics, technology, and everyday life.This book traces the multiverse’s rise across popular culture, from major franchises including Marvel, DC, Star Wars and Blade Runner to films such as Everything Everywhere All At Once, connecting them to post-truth politics, AI deepfakes, social media algorithms and immersive nostalgia. Drawing on theories of cultural resistance and metamodernism, it examines the oscillation between authenticity and artificiality, irony and sincerity, despair and hope. Combining close analysis with wide-ranging commentary, the book explores what it means to navigate a world where reality has become multiple choice.Written for students and scholars in media studies, cultural studies, film and television studies, and contemporary philosophy, as well as general readers interested in cultural and technological change. Suitable for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate courses exploring contemporary media, reality, and identity.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2027-03-11
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x undefined mm
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 218
  • Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781032669854
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Will Brooker is Professor of Film and Cultural Studies at Kingston University. His books include Batman Unmasked, Using the Force, Alice’s Adventures, The Audience Studies Reader, Hunting the Dark Knight, Forever Stardust, and Never-Ending Watchmen. His work explores popular icons, cultural history and audience interpretation, spanning comics, cinema, television, music, literature, video games and critical theory.

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"Will Brooker’s astute analytical scalpel is a must for dissecting postmodern media literacy. Reality Crisis takes a ‘subtle knife’ to the fabric of anglophone popular entertainment. Discover how multiple narrative multiverses emerge, divide, and converse. How socially generated literacy severs representation from reality, experience from physics, consciousness from cosmos. How truths are expressed as fiction, and legacy genres peddle apocalyptic visions, biblical or biological. The future is another story, told by art, AI, and aliens. Are you in the know?"- John Hartley, Curtin University and University of Sydney, Australia“An entertaining deep-dive analysis of how the pop-cultural chaos of multiverses not only reflects but also reveals and articulates the seemingly unstable nature of our socio-political world. Mingling film franchises, quantum mechanics and AI deep fakes, Brooker tours a dizzying range of revisable pasts, until all history is understood as alternate history, and Donald Trump reigns over the immersive dystopia.”- Chris Gavaler, Washington and Lee University, USA

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