Narrative Across Media: The Languages of StorytellingMarie-Laure Ryan, James Ruppert, John W. Bernet 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.ø 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. |
Contents
FacetoFace Narration | 41 |
Toward a Transmedial Narratology | 47 |
Frame and Boundary in the Phenomenology of Narrative | 76 |
Gesture and the Poetics of Prose | 108 |
Still Pictures | 139 |
Pictorial Narrativity | 145 |
Art Spiegelmans Maus and the Graphic Narrative | 178 |
Moving Pictures | 195 |
Overview of the Music and Narrative Field | 273 |
Music as a Narrative Art | 281 |
Music Genre and Narrative Theory | 301 |
Digital Media | 325 |
Will New Media Produce New Narratives? | 333 |
Quest Games as PostNarrative Discourse | 357 |
The Myths of Interactive Cinema | 373 |
Textual Theory and Blind Spots in Media Studies | 387 |
NeoStructuralist Narratology and the Functions of Filmic Storytelling | 203 |
Literary Film Adaptation and the FormContent Dilemma | 220 |
Ordinary Horror on Reality TV | 244 |
Music | 265 |
Contributors | 401 |
Index | 405 |