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Transmedial character studies / Tobias Kunz and Lukas R.A. Wilde.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kunz, Tobias (Editorial assistant), author.
- Wilde, Lukas R. A., author.
- Series:
- Routledge advances in transmedia studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Characters and characteristics in mass media.
- Fictitious characters.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 281 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
- Biography/History:
- Tobias Kunz holds an MA in Cross-Media Culture from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He works as an editorial assistant for the peer-reviewed journal Connotations. Lukas R.A. Wilde is Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Media Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. His monograph Im Reich der Figuren (Kingdom of Characters) was awarded with the Roland Faelske for the best dissertation in Comics and Animation Studies 2018 as well as with the GIB Dissertation Award 2021 of the Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Pictures (GiB). He is Vice President of the German Society for Comic Studies (ComFor).
- Contents:
- Characters as subjective consciousness frames
- Characters as actants in narrative events
- Characters as social representations
- Embodied characters in film, TV shows and animated films
- Interactive characters in video games
- Transmedia characters as networks of character versions
- Serial, pre-narrative and meta-narrative characters and figures
- Fictional characters and figures in actual contexts
- Fictionalized and non-fictional characters
- Perspectives and reflections: transmedia character studies?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 05, 2023).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from The Todd and Elizabeth Donovan Endowed Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Wilde, Lukas R. A. Transmedial character studies
- ISBN:
- 9781003298793
- 1003298796
- 9781000860382
- 1000860388
- 9781000860443
- 1000860442
- Publisher Number:
- 99993457257
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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