This week we’ll be exploring how big businesses spend vast sums of money to create transmedia worlds. Are the worlds and stories created by powerhouses like Marvel and DC as complex and multi-faceted as they appear?

Also, if you look through the readings you’ll find a neat little piece by Whitehouse on how comic books are the perfect precursor to transmedia storytelling. Can you think of any other forms that have transmedia characteristics – or, to steal Bryan L’s phrase, a ‘transmedia aesthetic’ – within a single channel/platform?

We’ll also be watching the various incarnations of Agent Carter – originally a minor character in the first Captain America film from 2011, and looking at how Marvel is toying with traditional themes and representations. After a 20-minute spiel from me on Wednesday morning, there’ll be about 90 minutes of screening: firstly, come prepared to take notes, secondly, if you’d like to bring snacks, feel free!