Review of Retcon Game: Retroactive Continuity and the Hyperlinking of America
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
Spring 4-27-2018
Publication Title
Popular Culture Review
Volume
29
Issue
1
Abstract
In his introduction to Retcon Game: Retroactive Continuity and the Hyperlinking of America, author Andrew J. Friedenthal notes in part, “I contend that the editable hyperlink, rather than the stable footnote, has become the de facto source of information in America today, and that the groundwork for this major cultural shift has been laid for decades via our modes of entertainment” (8). On that intriguing and compelling note begins Friedenthal’s wide-ranging investigation into how Americans increasingly find themselves viewing history not as fixed, but as malleable and transformable. He looks first to media in many forms, from the comic book to episodic television, as the source from which American culture has been increasingly accustomed to the idea that nothing, not even fixed history, lies beyond the boundaries of change.
Disciplines
Film and Media Studies
Language
English
Repository Citation
Green, A. M.
(2018).
Review of Retcon Game: Retroactive Continuity and the Hyperlinking of America.
Popular Culture Review, 29(1),