help me with my learnings
Firstly, massive apologies for how long it's taken me to get back to comments recently - daftly, I've been starting conversations requiring a lot of attention and mental energy while mired in the exhausting process of writing and editing a particularly bastardly article (should be done by the end of tomorrow, though, woo!). I've really appreciated hearing people's thoughts on my tl;dr, though; thank you.
Secondly. I went to see my supervisor this week to try and sort out my mid-thesis crisis (which, gleefully, I had a bit of a breakthrough about yesterday, YAY), and the general conclusion that was reached - other than that my thesis topic is ridiculously ambitious and thoroughly unmanageable and there's probably a reason why no one's doing the kind of research I want to do - was that I need to go back and do some primary research for a while. Specifically, my supervisor thought it might be a useful experiment for me to pick a transmedia franchise that I've had no direct contact with so far, and record my thoughts as I navigate through it (all the primary texts I've used so far have been franchises that I've been a consumer of as they were released).
So to the point of this post: I would very much appreciate suggestions for franchises to try.
To give a clearer idea of what I'm looking for: the type of fiction my thesis deals with is multipart texts in which different parts of the narrative are articulated in different media (like the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII); however, this can also include multipart texts where some parts are technically adaptations of other parts, or that has most of its parts in one medium and only some in others. They just have to have some multiplatform content, and some degree of multipart narrative. In other words, I'm looking at major fictional universes that span media.
The main examples I'm looking at already are:
the Matrix universe
the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII
the Batman universe
the Harry Potter universe
the Doctor Who universe
the Buffyverse
The obvious one that's suggesting itself to me at the moment is Star Wars, which I have somehow managed to get to 24 and know nothing more about that what's general cultural knowledge; I'm not exactly keen on the idea, though, so I'd really welcome any other options people can think of. My only stipulation would be that, for these purposes, I'd rather not be using animanga-based universes - working with non-Anglo-American fictions adds complications that it's not really within the rubric of my thesis to deal with. I'm not ruling them out entirely, though, so if there are any that you think might be useful to me, go ahead and let me know. I'm also particularly interested in universes that either have elements that might not fall under the umbrella of what's usually understood as fictional practice (theme park rides, museum exhibitions, tabletop RPGs, songs, &c.) or, similarly, involve media that you might not normally think of as vehicles for fiction.
Tl;dr, tell me about your favourite fictional universes, flist!
Secondly. I went to see my supervisor this week to try and sort out my mid-thesis crisis (which, gleefully, I had a bit of a breakthrough about yesterday, YAY), and the general conclusion that was reached - other than that my thesis topic is ridiculously ambitious and thoroughly unmanageable and there's probably a reason why no one's doing the kind of research I want to do - was that I need to go back and do some primary research for a while. Specifically, my supervisor thought it might be a useful experiment for me to pick a transmedia franchise that I've had no direct contact with so far, and record my thoughts as I navigate through it (all the primary texts I've used so far have been franchises that I've been a consumer of as they were released).
So to the point of this post: I would very much appreciate suggestions for franchises to try.
To give a clearer idea of what I'm looking for: the type of fiction my thesis deals with is multipart texts in which different parts of the narrative are articulated in different media (like the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII); however, this can also include multipart texts where some parts are technically adaptations of other parts, or that has most of its parts in one medium and only some in others. They just have to have some multiplatform content, and some degree of multipart narrative. In other words, I'm looking at major fictional universes that span media.
The main examples I'm looking at already are:
the Matrix universe
the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII
the Batman universe
the Harry Potter universe
the Doctor Who universe
the Buffyverse
The obvious one that's suggesting itself to me at the moment is Star Wars, which I have somehow managed to get to 24 and know nothing more about that what's general cultural knowledge; I'm not exactly keen on the idea, though, so I'd really welcome any other options people can think of. My only stipulation would be that, for these purposes, I'd rather not be using animanga-based universes - working with non-Anglo-American fictions adds complications that it's not really within the rubric of my thesis to deal with. I'm not ruling them out entirely, though, so if there are any that you think might be useful to me, go ahead and let me know. I'm also particularly interested in universes that either have elements that might not fall under the umbrella of what's usually understood as fictional practice (theme park rides, museum exhibitions, tabletop RPGs, songs, &c.) or, similarly, involve media that you might not normally think of as vehicles for fiction.
Tl;dr, tell me about your favourite fictional universes, flist!