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.
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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?
