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Narrative across media : the languages of storytelling / edited by Marie-Laure Ryan.

Contributor(s): Ryan, Marie-Laure, 1946- [editor.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Frontiers of narrative: Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 422 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0803289936 (paperback); 0803239440 .Subject(s): Narration (Rhetoric) | Mass mediaDDC classification: 808
Contents:
Introduction / Marie-Laure Ryan -- Part 1: Face-to-face Narration -- Toward a transmedial Narratology / David Herman -- Frame and Boundary in the phenomenology of Narrative / Katharine Young -- Gesture and the Poetics of Prose / Justine Cassell and David McNeill -- Part 2: Still Pictures -- Pictorial Narrativity / Wendy Steiner -- Art Spiegelman's Maus and the graphic Narrative / Jeanne Ewert -- Part 3: Moving Pictures -- Neo-Structuralist Narratology and the functions of filmic storytelling / David Bordwell -- Literary Film Adaptation and the Form/Content Dilemma / Kamilla Elliott -- Ordinary Horror on Reality TV / Cynthia Freeland -- Part 4: Music -- Overview of the Music and Narrative Field / Emma Kafalenos -- Music as a Narrative Art / Eero Tarasti -- Music, Genre and Narrative Theory / Peter J. Rabinowitz -- Part 5: Digital Media -- Will new Media produce new narratives? / Marie-Laure Ryan -- Quest Games as Post-Narrative Discourse / Espen Aarseth -- The myths of Interactive Cinema / Peter Lunenfeld -- Coda: Textual theory and blind spots in Media Studies / Liv Hausken.
Summary: Narratology has been conceived from its earliest days as a project that transcends disciplines and media. The essays gathered here address the question of how narrative migrates, mutates, and creates meaning as it is expressed across various media. Dividing the inquiry into five areas: face-to-face narrative, still pictures, moving pictures, music, and digital media, Narrative across Media investigates how the intrinsic properties of the supporting medium shape the form of narrative and affect the narrative experience. Unlike other interdisciplinary approaches to narrative studies, all of which have tended to concentrate on narrative across language-supported fields, this unique collection provides a much-needed analysis of how narrative operates when expressed through visual, gestural, electronic, and musical means. In doing so, the collection redefines the act of storytelling. Although the fields of media and narrative studies have been invigorated by a variety of theoretical approaches, this volume seeks to avoid a dominant theoretical bias by providing instead a collection of concrete studies that inspire a direct look at texts rather than relying on a particular theory of interpretation. A contribution to both narrative and media studies, Narrative across Media is the first attempt to bridge the two disciplines.
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Narratology has been conceived from its earliest days as a project that transcends disciplines and media. The essays gathered here address the question of how narrative migrates, mutates, and creates meaning as it is expressed across various media.

Dividing the inquiry into five areas: face-to-face narrative, still pictures, moving pictures, music, and digital media, Narrative across Media investigates how the intrinsic properties of the supporting medium shape the form of narrative and affect the narrative experience. Unlike other interdisciplinary approaches to narrative studies, all of which have tended to concentrate on narrative across language-supported fields, this unique collection provides a much-needed analysis of how narrative operates when expressed through visual, gestural, electronic, and musical means. In doing so, the collection redefines the act of storytelling. Although the fields of media and narrative studies have been invigorated by a variety of theoretical approaches, this volume seeks to avoid a dominant theoretical bias by providing instead a collection of concrete studies that inspire a direct look at texts rather than relying on a particular theory of interpretation. A contribution to both narrative and media studies, Narrative across Media is the first attempt to bridge the two disciplines.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Marie-Laure Ryan -- Part 1: Face-to-face Narration -- Toward a transmedial Narratology / David Herman -- Frame and Boundary in the phenomenology of Narrative / Katharine Young -- Gesture and the Poetics of Prose / Justine Cassell and David McNeill -- Part 2: Still Pictures -- Pictorial Narrativity / Wendy Steiner -- Art Spiegelman's Maus and the graphic Narrative / Jeanne Ewert -- Part 3: Moving Pictures -- Neo-Structuralist Narratology and the functions of filmic storytelling / David Bordwell -- Literary Film Adaptation and the Form/Content Dilemma / Kamilla Elliott -- Ordinary Horror on Reality TV / Cynthia Freeland -- Part 4: Music -- Overview of the Music and Narrative Field / Emma Kafalenos -- Music as a Narrative Art / Eero Tarasti -- Music, Genre and Narrative Theory / Peter J. Rabinowitz -- Part 5: Digital Media -- Will new Media produce new narratives? / Marie-Laure Ryan -- Quest Games as Post-Narrative Discourse / Espen Aarseth -- The myths of Interactive Cinema / Peter Lunenfeld -- Coda: Textual theory and blind spots in Media Studies / Liv Hausken.

Narratology has been conceived from its earliest days as a project that transcends disciplines and media. The essays gathered here address the question of how narrative migrates, mutates, and creates meaning as it is expressed across various media. Dividing the inquiry into five areas: face-to-face narrative, still pictures, moving pictures, music, and digital media, Narrative across Media investigates how the intrinsic properties of the supporting medium shape the form of narrative and affect the narrative experience. Unlike other interdisciplinary approaches to narrative studies, all of which have tended to concentrate on narrative across language-supported fields, this unique collection provides a much-needed analysis of how narrative operates when expressed through visual, gestural, electronic, and musical means. In doing so, the collection redefines the act of storytelling. Although the fields of media and narrative studies have been invigorated by a variety of theoretical approaches, this volume seeks to avoid a dominant theoretical bias by providing instead a collection of concrete studies that inspire a direct look at texts rather than relying on a particular theory of interpretation. A contribution to both narrative and media studies, Narrative across Media is the first attempt to bridge the two disciplines.

CIT Module EDUC9027 - Core reading.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Marie-Laure Ryan is an independent scholar. She is the author of Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media and Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory .