Board(er) Games: Space, Culture, and Empire in Jumanji and Its Intertexts
Board(er) Games: Space, Culture, and Empire in Jumanji and Its Intertexts
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University of Toronto Press
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English
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Two recent transmedia narratives--Karuna Riazi's 2017 middle-grade novel The Gauntlet and the 2017 film Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle--have attempted to reclaim the 1995 film Jumanji's colonial narrative (adapted from Chris Van Allsburg's 1981 picture book). Both present forms of the "portal fantasy," in which a protagonist supernaturally breaches...
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Board(er) Games: Space, Culture, and Empire in Jumanji and Its Intertexts
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TN_cdi_gale_lrcgauss_A647255671
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_gale_lrcgauss_A647255671
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1920-2601,1920-261X
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1920-261X
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10.1353/jeu.2020.0019
