Streaming The Sandman

Essays on the Netflix Series
Herausgeber: Prescott-Johnson, Tara

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

" After 30 years, the beloved award-winning comic book series The Sandman has finally been adapted to the screen. This is the first book to explore the Netflix series, examining the ways that the show honors its comics and fantasy roots while also updating the original story for a modern audience. Featuring an engaging introduction by Gaiman scholar Tara Prescott-Johnson, this book includes 11 essays from scholars, psychologists, artists, and fans that look at the show's inclusive, diverse casting, masterful storytelling, and impact on viewers. With overviews of the original comics, engaging scholarship, fresh points of view, and an episode guide, this collection is the definitive resource for fans as well as people encountering the Endless for the first time"-- Provided by publisher.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9781476692807
• ISBN-10: 1476692807
• Artikelnr.: 73873393

Autorenporträt

Tara Prescott-Johnson is a lecturer in Writing Programs at the University of California, Los Angeles. She lives in Culver City, California.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Allegations Against Neil Gaiman and the Future of Sandman
Tara Prescott-Johnson
Fresh-Faced: The Interpretive Impact of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in the
Sandman Series
Alexis Brooks de Vita and Novella Brooks de Vita
The Shadow of Empire: Neil Gaiman's Dialogue with Orientalism
Aayushi Shah
The Mythopoetic Memorial: Creating and Recreating Myth and Sites of Memory
Angela Carmela Uy Fantone
"You're as bad ... as Desire! Or worse!" Examining the Abject Nature of
Death and Desire
Melisa Maryann Goveas and Naveen Kelvin Dalmeida
Superheroes Can Be Children in Footie Pajamas: The Sensible Revisions of
Netflix's Sandman as Participating Within the Larger Project of DC's
Sandmen
Joseph Michael Sommers
Turning Toward the Sound of Her Wings: The Sandman Series as a Doorway to
Grief Literacy
Drea Letamendi
"Calliope": How Off-Screen Sexual Violence Changes the Narrative
Pinky Chung-Man Lui
The Therapeutic Value of Hope Shining through the Lens of Sandman
Samara V. Serotkin
Cautionary Tails: Animation and the Human/Nonhuman Animal in "Dream of a
Thousand Cats"
Colin Wheeler
A Cat of a Thousand Dreams: A Research Assistant's Perspective
Sara Misato Aoki
A Dreaming of Our Own: How Fandom Adapts Multiple Canons to Create a New
Fanon
Adrienne E. Raw
Sandman Episode Guide
About the Contributors
Index