1st Edition
LEGO Studies Examining the Building Blocks of a Transmedial Phenomenon
Prolegomena Mark J. P. Wolf 1. The Cultural History of LEGO Lars Konzack 2. Adapting the Death Star to LEGO: The Case of Set #10188 Mark J. P. Wolf 3. Middle-earth and LEGO (Re)creation Neal Baker 4. Myth Blocks: How LEGO Transmedia Configures and Remixes Mythic Structures in the Ninjago and Chima Themes Lori Landay 5. Chicks with Bricks: Building Creative Identities Across Industrial Design Cultures and Gendered Construction Play Derek Johnson 6. (Un)blocking the Transmedial Character: Digital Abstraction as Franchise Strategy in Traveller’s Tales’ LEGO Games Jessica Aldred 7. Playset Nostalgia: LEGO Star Wars Video Games and the Meta-Experience of Fandom Robert Buerkle 8. Brick by Brick: Modularity and Programmability in MINDSTORMS and Gaming Christopher Hanson 9. Building the LEGO Classroom Michael Lachney 10. The LEGO System as a Tool for Thinking, Creativity, and Changing the World David Gauntlett 11. LEGO: The Imperfect Art Tool Nathan Sawaya 12. LEGO Art Engages People Ed Diment & Duncan Titmarsh 13. The Virtualization of LEGO Kevin Schut 14. Bright Bricks, Dark Play: On the Impossibility of Studying LEGO Seth Giddings 15. Afterword: D.I.Y. Disciplinarity: (Dis)Assembling LEGO Studies for the Academy Jason Mittell Appendix: Resource Guide for LEGO Scholarship
Biography
Mark J. P. Wolf is Chair of the Communication Department at Concordia University Wisconsin. He is the author of Building Imaginary Worlds and co-editor with Bernard Perron of The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies and The Video Game Theory Reader 1 and 2.
