Subjectivity across Media: Interdisciplinary and Transmedial Perspectives (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2017

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

244 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781317286561

Related ISBNs:

9781138186750

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

10/11/22

Copyrighted By:

Maike Sarah Reinerth, Jan-Noël Thon

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Computers and Internet, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Maike Sarah Reinerth

Edited by:

Jan-Noël Thon