Data and Doctor Doom

An Empirical Approach To Transmedia Characters
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-45172-0
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 647 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels

This book defines a straightforward way to analyse fictional characters through data. It shows how a data-led approach can produce rich analyses of characters, their surrounding storyworlds, and their authors across time and different types of media. It uses the Marvel Comics’ character, Doctor Doom as its main case study, and demonstrates the advantages of this approach by comparing the results to those taken from a survey of fan attitudes. It also uses the methodology to analyse the differences between the American and British characters who share the name "Dennis The Menace". Finally, it offers a range of further uses for the tool. All datasets and tools are made available to download, so that other researchers can use the methodology and compare their own results to those generated in the book.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hibbett, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Introduction.- 2. Methodology.- 3.The corpus and sample.- 4.Analysis.- 5.A Tale Of Two Menaces.- 6.Discussion.- Bibliography.- Appendix One: Using the unified model of transmedia character coherence.- Appendix Two: Doctor Doom Corpus.- Appendix Three: Example of signifier survey.

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Hibbett is head of research information systems at University of the Arts London, UK. He has spent thirty years working with research data in arts and science contexts and his current research focuses on transmedia character cohesion, particularly related to superheroes and children's humour comics.