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Retcon Game : Retroactive Continuity and the Hyperlinking of America /

How comics introduced a sharp metaphor for America's growing recognition of a mutable past.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Friedenthal, Andrew J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: a hyperlinked past: theorizing retroactive continuity
  • A brief prehistory of retroactive continuity
  • High society: historical revisionism in justice society comics
  • Crisis control: crisis on infinite earths and the creation of a unified comic book universe
  • Moving images, moving history: retroactive continuity in television and film
  • Putting it all together: retroactive parody and play
  • Citation needed: Wikipedia and the mutability of the past
  • Conclusion: playing the retcon game.