Cinema As a Worldbuilding Machine in the Digital Era

This essay examines the primacy of worldbuilding in the age of CGI, transmedia practices and "high concept" fiction by studying the principles that govern the c

The digital technologies of the 21st century are reshaping how we experience storytelling. More than ever before, storylines from the world's most popular narra

The early modern period was rife with attempts to re-imagine the world and the human place within it. This volume looks at natural philosophers, playwrights, hi

Learn how to create compelling game storylines. Four experienced narrative designers from different genres of game development have banded together to create th

With contributions from a distinguished group of world-builders, including academics, writers, and designers, this anthology of essays describes the process and

From wondrous fairy-lands to nightmarish hellscapes, the elements that make fantasy worlds come alive also invite their exploration. This first book-length stud

Text World Theory is a powerful framework for discourse analysis that, thus far, has only been used in monolingual Anglophone stylistic analyses. This work adap

This edited collection of original essays situates itself at the cutting edge of media theory, exploring imaginary worlds as forms of knowledge and forms of lif

Music and World-Building in the Colonial City investigates how nineteenth-century migrants to Australia used music as a resource for world-building, focusing on

World Building represents the state-of-the-discipline in worlds-based approaches to discourse, collected together for the first time. Over the last 40 years the