Marie-Laure Ryan

Jan-Noël Thon

toward a media-conscious narratology

Storyworlds across media

Daniel Stein

This essay collection examines the theory and history of graphic narrative as one of the most interesting and versatile forms of narrative beyond traditional literary texts. Analyzing a wide range of texts, genres, and narrative strategies from both theoretical and historical perspectives, its various contributors offer state-of-the-art research on graphic narrative in the context of an increasingly postclassical and transmedial narratology.

Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative

From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels

Andreas Rauscher

This book offers the first comprehensive study of the many interfaces shaping the relationship between comics and videogames. It combines in-depth conceptual reflection with a rich selection of paradigmatic case studies from contemporary media culture. The editors have gathered a distinguished group of international scholars working at the interstices of comics studies and game studies to explore two interrelated areas of inquiry: The first part of the book focuses on hybrid medialities and experimental aesthetics "between" comics and videogames; the second part zooms in on how comics and videogames function as transmedia expansions within an increasingly convergent and participatory media culture. The individual chapters address synergies and intersections between comics and videogames via a diverse set of case studies ranging from independent and experimental projects via popular franchises from the corporate worlds of DC and Marvel to the more playful forms of media mix prominent in Japan. Offering an innovative intervention into a number of salient issues in current media culture, Comics and Videogames will be of interest to scholars and students of comics studies, game studies, popular culture studies, transmedia studies, and visual culture studies.

From Hybrid Medialities to Transmedia Expansions

Comics and Videogames

Frauke Berndt

Als Festschrift zu Klaus Sachs-Hombachs 65. Geburtstag versammelt der Band eine Reihe ausgewählter Beiträge wichtiger Wegbegleiter*innen zur für das wissenschaftliche Werk des so Geehrten zentralen Frage nach den Formen und Funktionen gegenwärtiger wie historischer Bildmedien. Ziel des Bandes ist es dabei, diverse philosophische ebenso wie literatur-, kultur- und medienwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf die Materialität, Semiotik und Ästhetik von Bildern und anderen (auch) visuellen Medienformen in einen produktiven interdisziplinären Dialog zu bringen. Mit Beiträgen von Frauke Berndt, Lars Christian Grabbe, Mark Halawa-Sarholz, Hans Dieter Huber, Berenike Jung, Eva Kimminich, Joachim Knape, Richard Langston, Stefan Meier, Dieter Mersch, Catrin Misselhorn, Stephan Packard, Cornelia Pierstorff, Goda Plaum, Patrick Rupert-Kruse, Schamma Schahadat, Eva Schürmann, Stephan Schwan, Jakob Steinbrenner, Bernd Stiegler, Jan-Noël Thon, Anne Ulrich, Lambert Wiesing, Lukas R.A. Wilde, Thomas Wilke und Hans J. Wulff.

Festschrift für Klaus Sachs-Hombach zum 65. Geburtstag

Bildmedien

This essay collection examines the theory and history of graphic narrative as one of the most interesting and versatile forms of storytelling in contemporary media culture. Its contributions test the applicability of narratological concepts to graphic narrative, examine aspects of graphic narrative beyond the ‘single work’, consider the development of particular narrative strategies within individual genres, and trace the forms and functions of graphic narrative across cultures. Analyzing a wide range of texts, genres, and narrative strategies from both theoretical and historical perspectives, the international group of scholars gathered here offers state-of-the-art research on graphic narrative in the context of an increasingly postclassical and transmedial narratology. This is the revised second edition of From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels, which was originally published in the Narratologia series.

Maike Sarah Reinerth

Media in general and narrative media in particular have the potential to represent not only a variety of both possible and actual worlds but also the perception and consciousness of characters in these worlds. Hence, media can be understood as "qualia machines," as technologies that allow for the production of subjective experiences within the affordances and limitations posed by the conventions of their specific mediality. This edited collection examines the transmedial as well as the medium-specific strategies employed by the verbal representations characteristic for literary texts, the verbal-pictorial representations characteristic for comics, the audiovisual representations characteristic for films, and the interactive representations characteristic for video games. Combining theoretical perspectives from analytic philosophy, cognitive theory, and narratology with approaches from phenomenology, psychosemiotics, and social semiotics, the contributions collected in this volume provide a state-of-the-art map of current research on a wide variety of ways in which subjectivity can be represented across conventionally distinct media.

Interdisciplinary and Transmedial Perspectives

Subjectivity across Media

It has become something of a clich� within the field of narratology to assert the commercial, aesthetic, and sociocultural relevance of narrative representations, but the fact remains that narratives are everywhere. Whenever we read a novel or a comic, watch a film or an episode of our favorite television series, or play the latest video game, we are likely to engage with narrative media. Similarly, the intermedial adaptations and transmedial entertainment franchises that have become increasingly visible during the past few decades are, at their core, narrative forms. Since a significant part of contemporary media culture is defined by the narratives we tell each other via various media, the media studies discipline needs a genuinely transmedial narratology. Transmedial Narratology and Contemporary Media Culture focuses on the intersubjective construction of storyworlds as well as on prototypical forms of narratorial and subjective representation. It 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 employed to further our understanding of narratives across media.

Transmedial Narratology and Contemporary Media Culture

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.

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. It 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.

This essay collection examines the theory and history of graphic narrative as one of the most interesting and versatile forms of storytelling in contemporary media culture. Its contributions test the applicability of narratological concepts to graphic narrative, examine aspects of graphic narrative beyond the 'single work', consider the development of particular narrative strategies within individual genres, and trace the forms and functions of graphic narrative across cultures. Analyzing a wide range of texts, genres, and narrative strategies from both theoretical and historical perspectives, the international group of scholars gathered here offers state-of-the-art research on graphic narrative in the context of an increasingly postclassical and transmedial narratology. This is the revised second edition of From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels, which was originally published in the Narratologia series.

Véronique Sina

Julia Eckel

Erwin Feyersinger

Hans-Joachim Backe

Animation und Comic weisen in ihren Ästhetiken offenkundige Parallelen auf, denen jedoch bislang in der jeweils einschlägigen Forschung kaum angemessene Aufmerksamkeit gewidmet wurde. Beide basieren auf künstlerischen Praktiken, die unter Einsatz spezifischer Techniken Bilder generieren, welche wiederum diese Techniken ihrer Entstehung in einer besonderen Art und Weise mit-ausstellen. So verweisen die gezeichneten Linien des Comics oder des Cartoons auf den Akt des Zeichnens selbst, die Knetfiguren im Stop-Motion-Animationsfilm auf den Akt ihrer händischen (Ver-)Formung oder die hyperrealistischen, überhöhten Figuren des Superheld_innen-Comics und VFX-Kinos auf ihren Status als Artefakte. Diese für ganz unterschiedliche Formen von Animation und Comics konstitutive Thematisierung der eigenen Gemachtheit bildet den Hauptgegenstand des vorliegenden Bandes, in dessen Rahmen aus einer dezidiert interdisziplinären Perspektive die Parallelen, Schnittstellen und Unterschiede herausgearbeitet werden, die sich im Kontext von Animations- und Comicforschung mit Blick auf die methodisch-analytische Erfassung der Materialität und Ästhetik ihrer jeweiligen Gegenstände ergeben.

Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zur Animations- und Comicforschung

Ästhetik des Gemachten

Janina Wildfeuer

Lukas R.A. Wilde

Stephan Packard

​Die wissenschaftliche Beschäftigung mit Comics in all ihren vielfältigen Formen hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren auch in Deutschland zu einem lebhaften interdisziplinären Forschungsfeld entwickelt, dem zudem ein steigendes Interesse an der Comicanalyse in universitären Lehrveranstaltungen gefolgt ist. Die vorliegende Einführung verbindet vor diesem Hintergrund einen kompakten Überblick über einschlägige Theorien, Begriffe und Methoden mit einer Vielzahl konkreter Beispiele, um die Produktivität einer Auswahl zentraler Ansätze zur semiotischen, multimodalen, narratologischen, genretheoretischen, intersektionalen und interkulturellen Comicanalyse zu demonstrieren.

Eine Einführung

Comicanalyse

Olaf Grabienski

Till Huber

﻿This collective volume undertakes an appraisal and literary-historical localization of German-language pop literature of the 1990s, which is associated with such writers as Joachim Bessing, Rainald Goetz, Alexa Hennig von Lange, Christian Kracht, Joachim Lottmann, Thomas Meinecke, Andreas Neumeister and Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre. One focus of the volume is on performativity ‑ how authors of pop literature staged themselves. In addition, the book explores the narrative, intertextual and intermedial strategies of pop-literature texts and their contexts.

Die deutschsprachige Popliteratur der 1990er Jahre

Poetik der Oberfläche

Der Sammelband bietet eine Bestandsaufnahme und literaturgeschichtliche Verortung der deutschsprachigen Popliteratur der 1990er Jahre, die mit Autoren wie Joachim Bessing, Rainald Goetz, Alexa Hennig von Lange, Christian Kracht, Joachim Lottmann, Thomas Meinecke, Andreas Neumeister und Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre verbunden wird. Ein Schwerpunkt des Bandes liegt dabei auf der Performativität popliterarischer Autorinszenierungen. Darüber hinaus werden erzählerische, intertextuelle

Jan-Noël Thon

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