Overview

After 30 years, the beloved award-winning comic book series The Sandman has finally been adapted to the screen. This is the first book to explore the Netflix series, examining the ways that the show honors its comics and fantasy roots while also updating the original story for a modern audience. In 11 essays, scholars, psychologists, artists and fans look at the show's inclusive, diverse casting, masterful storytelling, and impact on viewers. With overviews of the original comics, engaging scholarship, fresh points of view, and an episode guide, this collection is the definitive resource for fans as well as people encountering the Endless for the first time.

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""The collection urges us to consider what happens when a Dream is deferred for a century (or, in the case of the adaptation of The Sandman from comic book to television show, just three decades) and then thrust back into the public consciousness for reimagination by a new generation. In taking up questions of adaptation, representation, and mythmaking, the contributors to this volume examine the variegated fallout of change, particularly when it happens to an undying entity when it is mistaken for an immutable constant. In their own way, each contributor works through the ramifications of reimagination. Some discuss the birthing pains of a thirty-year gestation; others mine the deep history of The Sandman to help explain its evolution into streaming phenomenon; a few consider the living people impacted by disruptions to the dreaming; and still others turn from the past to the future, considering the horizons as yet untouched by a living text, as yet in the making. The contributors have crafted a delirious, vertiginous ride through all the dreamscapes that have lived, thrived, perished, not-yet-been, and might-never-be in the Dreaming history of The Sandman. Add this book to the pile of reasons to revisit Morpheus in his castle built from dreams.""-Kyle Eveleth, Otterbein University

""The collection urges us to consider what happens when a Dream is deferred for a century (or, in the case of the adaptation of The Sandman from comic book to television show, just three decades) and then thrust back into the public consciousness for reimagination by a new generation. In taking up questions of adaptation, representation, and mythmaking, the contributors to this volume examine the variegated fallout of change, particularly when it happens to an undying entity when it is mistaken for an immutable constant. In their own way, each contributor works through the ramifications of reimagination. Some discuss the birthing pains of a thirty-year gestation; others mine the deep history of The Sandman to help explain its evolution into streaming phenomenon; a few consider the living people impacted by disruptions to the dreaming; and still others turn from the past to the future, considering the horizons as yet untouched by a living text, as yet in the making. The contributors have crafted a delirious, vertiginous ride through all the dreamscapes that have lived, thrived, perished, not-yet-been, and might-never-be in the Dreaming history of The Sandman. Add this book to the pile of reasons to revisit Morpheus in his castle built from dreams.""--Kyle Eveleth, Otterbein University

Author Information

Tara Prescott-Johnson is a lecturer in Writing Programs at the University of California, Los Angeles. She lives in Culver City, California.

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