Subjectivity Across Media - Interdisciplinary and Transmedial Perspectives

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.

List of contents

Introduction: Subjectivity across Media
Maike Sarah Reinerth and Jan-Noël Thon
PART I: VERBAL REPRESENTATIONS OF SUBJECTIVITY
1. The Expression of Subjectivity in Fiction: The Case of Internal Focalization
Tilmann Köppe
2. Child Minds through Gaps and Metaphors: On Two Strategies for Consciousness Representation in Literary Narrative
Marco Caracciolo and Cécile Guédon
3. Cybernetic and Kinetic: Representing Subjectivity in Digital Fiction
David Ciccoricco
PART II: VERBAL-PICTORIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF SUBJECTIVITY
4. The Body at Work: Subjectivity in Graphic Memoir
Silke Horstkotte and Nancy Pedri
5. Visible Hand? Subjectivity and Its Stylistic Markers in Graphic Narratives
Lukas Etter
6. The Drawn-Out Gaze of the Cartoon: A Psychosemiotic Look at Subjectivity in Comic Book Storytelling
Stephan Packard
PART III: AUDIOVISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF SUBJECTIVITY
7. Experiencing Extended Point-of-View Shots: A Film-Phenomenological Perspective on Extreme Character Subjectivity
Julian Hanich
8. Color and Subjectivity in Film
Barbara Flueckiger
9. Immersed in History Films: Subjectivity, Memory, and Fictional Privilege
Casper Tybjerg
PART IV: INTERACTIVE REPRESENTATIONS OF SUBJECTIVITY
10. Film Aesthetics and Interactive Representations of Subjectivity in Video Games
Benjamin Beil
11. Walk a Mile in My Shoes: Subjectivity and Embodiment in Video Games
Felix Schröter
12. "As Only a Game Can": Re-creating Subjective Lived Experiences through Interactivity in Non-Fictional Video Games
Evelyn Chew and Alex Mitchell

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Maike Sarah Thon Reinerth
• Assisted by: Maike Sarah Reinerth (Editor), Reinerth Maike Sarah (Editor), Jan-Noël Thon (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.10.2016
• EAN: 9781138186750
• ISBN: 978-1-138-18675-0
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Games, quizzes; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Media Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comics & Graphic Novels, Films, cinema, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Literature: history and criticism, GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Video & Mobile, Computer games / online games: strategy guides