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Transmedia Character Studies provides a range of methodological tools and foundational vocabulary for the analysis of characters across and between various forms of multimodal, interactive, and even non-narrative or non-fictional media.
List of contents
0. Transmedia Character Studies – An Introduction
SECTION 1 Foundations of Characters across Media
1. Characters as Subjective Consciousness Frames
2. Characters as Actants in Narrative Events
3. Characters as Social Representation
SECTION 2 Characters in Different Narrative Media
4. Embodied Characters in Film, TV Shows, and Cosplay
5. Cartoonish Characters in Comic Books and Animated Films
6. Interactive Characters in Video Games
SECTION 3 Foundations of Transmedia Character Analysis
7. Transmedia Characters as Networks of Character Versions
8. Serial, Pre-narrative, and Meta-narrative Characters and Figures
SECTION 4 Characters and Non-Fiction
9. Fictional Characters and Figures (Imagined to Exist) in Actual Contexts
10. Fictionalized and Non-Fictional Characters
Perspectives and Reflections: Transmedia Character Studies?
About the author
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).
Summary
Transmedia Character Studies provides a range of methodological tools and foundational vocabulary for the analysis of characters across and between various forms of multimodal, interactive, and even non-narrative or non-fictional media.
