Transmedial narratology and contemporary media culture / Jan-Noël Thon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thon, Jan-Noël, author.

Series:

Frontiers of narrative.

Frontiers of Narrative

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narration (Rhetoric).

Storytelling in mass media.

Discourse analysis, Narrative.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (555 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, Nebraska ; London, [England] : University of Nebraska Press, 2016.

Summary:

Narratives are everywhere-and since a significant part of contemporary media culture is defined by narrative forms, media studies need a genuinely transmedial narratology. Against this background, Transmedial Narratology and Contemporary Media Culture focuses on the intersubjective construction of storyworlds as well as on prototypical forms of narratorial and subjective representation. This book provides not only a method for the analysis of salient transmedial strategies of narrative representation in contemporary films, comics, and video games but also a theoretical frame within which medium-specific approaches from literary and film narratology, from comics studies and game studies, and from various other strands of media and cultural studies may be applied to further our understanding of narratives across media.

Contents:

Introduction

Toward a transmedial narratology

Part 1. Storyworlds across media

The storyworld as a transmedial concept

Narrative representation across media

Part 2. Narrators across media

The narrator as a transmedial concept

Narratorial representation across media

Part 3. Subjectivity across media

Subjectivity as a transmedial concept

Subjective representation across media

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780803288379

0803288379

9780803288393

0803288395

OCLC:

951885050