ISBN:
9780415722872
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (323 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version LEGO Studies : Examining the Building Blocks of a Transmedial Phenomenon
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als LEGO studies
DDC:
688.725
Keywords:
LEGO toys..
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Educational toys..
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Popular culture
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Since the ""Automatic Binding Bricks"" that LEGO produced in 1949, and the LEGO ""System of Play"" that began with the release of Town Plan No. 1 (1955), LEGO bricks have gone on to become a global phenomenon, and the favorite building toy of children, as well as many an AFOL (Adult Fan of LEGO). LEGO has also become a medium into which a wide number of media franchises, including Star Wars, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, Batman, Superman, Lord of the Rings, and others, have adapted their characters, vehicles, props, and settings. The LEGO Group itself has become a multimedia empire
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; About the Contributors; Institutions; Prolegomena; 1 The Cultural History of LEGO; 2 Adapting the Death Star into LEGO: The Case of LEGO Set #10188; 3 Middle-earth and LEGO (Re)creation; 4 Myth Blocks: How LEGO Transmedia Configures and Remixes Mythic Structures in the Ninjago and Chima Themes; 5 Chicks with Bricks: Building Creativity Across Industrial Design Cultures and Gendered Construction Play; 6 (Un)blocking the Transmedial Character: Digital Abstraction as Franchise Strategy in Traveller's Tales' LEGO Games
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Playset Nostalgia: LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game and the Transgenerational Appeal of the LEGO Video Game Franchise8 Brick by Brick: Modularity and Programmability in MINDSTORMS and Gaming; 9 Building the LEGO Classroom; 10 The LEGO System as a Tool for Thinking, Creativity, and Changing the World; 11 LEGO: The Imperfect Art Tool; 12 LEGO Art Engages People; 13 The Virtualization of LEGO; 14 Bright Bricks, Dark Play: On the Impossibility of Studying LEGO; 15 Afterword: D.I.Y. Disciplinarity-(Dis)Assembling LEGO Studies for the Academy; Appendix: Resource Guide for LEGO Scholarship; Index
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