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A field of study in which properties of fictional universes are explored.
For example:
"In Independence Day, a woman is heard complaining due to the disruption, she can't watch the The X-Files.
In The X-Files movie, Mulder urinates on an ID4 poster.
Now, this means that X-Files is
fictional in the ID4 universe, and ID4 is fiction in Mulder's universe. If so, then what is the show that the woman complains about not being able to watch in the movie ID4, when being shown in the X-Files universe?
Is it a completely different show? Is she heard at all? Or maybe there actually is a TV show called The X-Files in Mulder's universe, which subsequently was referenced in the movie ID4, of which it's poster Mulder is pissing on.
But what then? does THAT show contain characters called Mulder or Scully? Or are they based on Jose Chung's from Out of Space? Is Scully played by Tea Leoni?"
Might not be important as cancer research, but still pretty damn interesting reading.
IMDB Independence Day references
http://us.imdb.com/Mlinks?0116629
[mrkillboy, Apr 12 2001, last modified Oct 21 2004]
IMDB X-Files references
http://us.imdb.com/Mlinks?0106179
[mrkillboy, Apr 12 2001, last modified Oct 17 2004]
TV Crossovers & Spin-Offs
http://www.poobala..../crossoverlist.html
He admits he has too much time on his hands [krelnik, Oct 17 2004]
The Eyre affair
http://www.amazon.c...&p=S00A#reader-link
A book about fictional worlds and interactions with them. My favorite page is 4, when she gets the Beatles single. You can read it online! [bungston, Sep 08 2006]
[link]
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Hmmm--the analysis of the respective Latin American surrealist worlds of Marquez in "Autumn of the Patriarch," Asturias in "Mulata," and Arenas in "Hallucinations" would be daunting and no doubt end with the analyst becoming insane. Go on, I dare you. |
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Get out more, one reality is enough for me, most days. |
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just read a philip pullman book. no offense, but he probably writes a lot better than
most of us |
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Tea Leoni played herself in an episode of the X Files. |
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you lost me just after the " for example " bit, but croissant anyways. |
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read again kaz, it may take 2 or 3 readings but you get there in the end. |
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wow thats screwy. my brain hurts |
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sorry, try again in 6 months. |
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// one reality is enough for me, most days. // |
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[po]: I thought that Tea Leoni (Mrs Duchovny) played Scully, and Gary Shandling played Mulder. Are we thinking of the same episode? |
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This is amazingly interesting. There's a website, one I can't find at the moment, featuring literature within literature. Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" series, for example, includes books only dreamed of. Many works of literature mention fictional works. Many refer to true-life ones as well. Douglas Adams's "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" offers an intriguing quandary regarding Coleridge and Bach. |
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Very interesting. Perhaps the idea could be used to elucidate a link between Baudrillard's 'Simulacrum' and Derrida's 'Differance'. An everlasting chain of associations with no referent which exists in an unstable 'hyper-real' vacuum of representaion...erm, you dig? |
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Read Jorge Luis Borges, especially Tlon, Uqbar, Orbus Tertius. This story is about a fictional planet that became so exhaustively documented that it eventually supplanted our own. |
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I thought this was going to be a serious textbook on the nature of various universes in fiction, which a professor would use to teach a class. "Gary, Shelly decicided to make it possible in the universe of Frankenstein to create life in a laboratory. What does that suggest about her?" But it seems to be a pop-culture trivia book. |
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I just had an idea which I think should go here.
All phone-numbers in America start with 555, right?
So there are a maximum of 10,000 phone lines in any area code.
Some places have a lot of films set in them.
Therefore it may be possible to work out which people in different films live in the same house. |
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For example New York.
I just found a website which lists area codes, it looks like New York has 14 area codes.
Therefore if one could identify the area, you could potentially work out that a household contained a murderer, a basketball player, and a superhero. |
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Another example, there is one area code for all of Arkansas. Are there many films set there? I don't know, but it is a fantastic opportunity for a media studies thesis. |
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I try to take the realities one at a time, but today all of them seem to have attacked me at once... |
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I'm not sure if this is actually an idea, it seems to be just a question. At least it's an interesting question. |
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I'm not sure if this is actually an idea, it seems to be just a question. At least it's an interesting question. Another question: do all American phone numbers really start with 555? |
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In some universe or other, yes. 555 is used in fiction to keep people from dialing real numbers in this universe. |
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