Narratives are everywhere--and since a significant part of contemporary media culture is
defined by narrative forms, media studies need a genuinely transmedial narratology. Against …

Stories are everywhere, from fiction across media to politics and personal identity.
Handbook of Narrative Analysis sorts out both traditional and recent narrative theories …

A new analytical framework for understanding literary videogames, the literary-ludic
spectrum, illustrated by close readings of selected works. In this book, Astrid Ensslin …

The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism surveys the full spectrum of postmodern
culture-high and low, avant-garde and popular, famous and obscure-across a range of …

The book is concerned with narrative in digital media that changes according to user input—
Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN). It provides a broad overview of current issues and future …

This remarkably clearly written and timely critical evaluation of core issues in the study and
application of interactive digital narrative (IDN) untangles the range of theories and …

This volume puts forth an original theoretical framework, the ludonarrative model, for
studying video games which foregrounds the empirical study of the player experience. The …

It is a defining quality of the category of games fitting under the label of the 'figure game'that
they not only establish a world to be explored and experienced, but also a subjective identity …

This essay develops a method for the analysis of video game characters based on a
theoretical understanding of their medium-specific representation and the mental processes …

This article presents a short guide that illustrates a hermeneutic procedure for game
analysis. The guide has been divided into three parts. The first part delineates the …