From Harry Potter to the Wizarding World

The Transfiguration of a Franchise

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvCassie Brummitt,University of Nottingham) Brummitt, Cassie (Assistant Professor in Film and Television Studies

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The Harry Potter franchise is not confined to just the page or the screen, but has been and continues to be reimagined and reconfigured through a number of extratextual products, texts, and experiences which surround and rework the Harry Potter texts. This book centres around the 2010s, or the 'post-Potter era', a period of unprecedented growth and reinvention for the franchise. Many of the franchising developments produced during this time operated according to distinct strategies: to consolidate the legacy of the Harry Potter series, or to extend the fictional universe into new settings, media and cultural forms. This book explores six such developments - J.K. Rowling's authorship, the website Pottermore, the 'Wizarding World of Harry Potter' theme parks, the Warner Bros. Studio Tour in Watford, the Fantastic Beasts films, and the stageplay Harry Potter and the Cursed Child to shine a spotlight on a franchise in flux.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-09-30
Mått156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt478 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor232
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399548182

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Cassie Brummitt is Assistant Professor in Film and Television Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. She is author of “Pottermore: Transmedia Storytelling and Authorship in Harry Potter” in the Midwest Quarterly (2016, vol 4) and ‘’Friends? Always.’: Queerbaiting, Erasure, and Ambiguity in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’, in Queerbaiting and Fandom: Teasing Fans through Homoerotic Possibilities (edited by Joseph Brennan). Her research interests include screen marketing and promotion, contemporary media franchising, and the cinema industry.

PrefaceAcknowledgementsNotes on the TextIntroduction: Beyond the Page and Screen1. J.K. Rowling – From Author to Authority2. Pottermore – Brand Management, Digital Publishing and Transmedia Storytelling3. Rethinking Theme Parks: ‘The Wizarding World of Harry Potter’, or Fantasy Absolutely Reproduced4. Negotiating Authenticity, Heritage and Prestige in the ‘Warner Bros. Studio Tour, London: The Making of Harry Potter’5. Fantastic Beasts – A Corporate Beast?6. “I am the new past ... I am the new future”: Staging sequels, and Harry Potter and the Cursed ChildConclusion: From ‘Harry Potter’ to ‘Wizarding World’Bibliography

From Harry Potter to the Wizarding World is a salient, long overdue analysis of the wealth and breadth of the story world in the post-book era, covering everything from online platform Pottermore, to its presence in Universal theme parks, the Studio Tour in Leavesden, the Cursed Child stage play, as well as the fledging Fantastic Beasts film series. Cassie Brummitt also convinces by reckoning with Rowling’s authorial control over the franchise, ever more important in light of her hateful and controversial presence in recent years.