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Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park: Deconstructing the Literary Launch of a Franchise – Chapter 8 “Cowan, Swain and Ross” (Pages 57 – 59)
Chapter 8 brings us back to the lawyer’s office where we hear counsel discuss their client, Ingen and their plans for Jurassic Park. Counsel will be sending an attendee along with the audit that is bringing Alan Grant and Ian Malcolm to the island. Continue reading
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Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park: Deconstructing the Literary Launch of a Franchise – Chapter 7 “Skeleton” (Pages 48 – 56)
Crichton leads up to the theme park, to Jurassic Park by creating multiple stakes. Here the stakes that he’s establishing is that the dinosaurs will escape. Continue reading
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Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park: Deconstructing the Literary Launch of a Franchise – Chapter 6 “Shore of the Inland Sea” (Pages 35 – 48)
Crichton leads up to the theme park, to Jurassic Park by creating multiple stakes. Here the stakes that he’s establishing is that the dinosaurs will escape. Continue reading
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Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park: 1st Section, “First Iteration”
Published in 1990, this book launches an entertainment franchise with the 1994 theatrical release of the blockbuster movie. The characters and plot are faithful to the source material. The book is broken down into seven sections, listed as ‘Iterations’. This … Continue reading
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Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park: Deconstructing the Literary Launch of a Franchise – Chapter 5 “The Shape of the Data” (Pages 29 – 31)
Crichton leads up to the theme park, to Jurassic Park by creating multiple stakes. Here the stakes that he’s establishing is that the dinosaurs will escape. Continue reading
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Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park: Deconstructing the Literary Launch of a Franchise – Chapter 4 “New York” (Pages 25 – 28)
Crichton leads up to the theme park, to Jurassic Park by creating multiple stakes. Here the stakes that he’s establishing is that the dinosaurs will escape. Continue reading
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Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park: Deconstructing the Literary Launch of a Franchise – Chapter 3 “The Beach” (Pages 22 – 24)
Crichton leads up to the theme park, to Jurassic Park by creating multiple stakes. Here the stakes that he’s establishing is that the dinosaurs will escape. Continue reading
Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park: Deconstructing the Literary Launch of a Franchise – Chapter 2 “Puntarenas” (Pages 16 – 21)
The Bowmans get their daughter to a hospital where her injuries are treated. The readers know it is dinosaurs, but the characters are shown to be rightfully puzzled by events. Over confidence, a common villain in Crichton novels makes an … Continue reading
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Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park: Deconstructing the Literary Launch of a Franchise – Chapter 1 “Almost Paradise” (Pages 9 – 14)
Crichton leads up to the theme park, to Jurassic Park by creating multiple stakes. Here the stakes that he’s establishing is that the dinosaurs will escape. Continue reading
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Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park: Deconstructing the Literary Launch of a Franchise – “Prologue: The Bite of the Raptor”
How big is the Jurassic Park media franchise? In this chapter a physician has to look up the word ‘raptor’ – something which seems totally implausible 30 years later because this book series so popularized the term. Continue reading
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