コミックとビデオゲームのメディアを越える接点 Comics and Videogames : From Hybrid Medialities to Transmedia Expansions

著者名：Rauscher, Andreas (EDT)/Stein, Daniel (EDT)/Thon, Jan-Noël (EDT)

Routledge（2020/10/18発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780367474195
• eISBN：9781000224214

Description

This book offers the first comprehensive study of the many interfaces shaping the relationship between comics and videogames. It combines in-depth conceptual reflection with a rich selection of paradigmatic case studies from contemporary media culture.

The editors have gathered a distinguished group of international scholars working at the interstices of comics studies and game studies to explore two interrelated areas of inquiry: The first part of the book focuses on hybrid medialities and experimental aesthetics "between" comics and videogames; the second part zooms in on how comics and videogames function as transmedia expansions within an increasingly convergent and participatory media culture. The individual chapters address synergies and intersections between comics and videogames via a diverse set of case studies ranging from independent and experimental projects via popular franchises from the corporate worlds of DC and Marvel to the more playful forms of media mix prominent in Japan.

Offering an innovative intervention into a number of salient issues in current media culture, Comics and Videogames will be of interest to scholars and students of comics studies, game studies, popular culture studies, transmedia studies, and visual culture studies.

Table of Contents

Contents

1. Introduction: Comics and videogames

Andreas Rauscher, Daniel Stein, and Jan-Noël Thon

Part I: Hybrid medialities

2. Of Pac-Men and Star Raiders: Early mutual representations between comics and videogames (1981–1983)

Nicolas Labarre

3. Interfacing comics and games: A socio-affective multimodal approach

Carman Ng

4. Game comics: Theory and design

Daniel Merlin Goodbrey

5. Game-comics and comic-games: Against the concept of hybrids

Hans-Joachim Backe

6. Building stories: The interplay of comics and games in Chris Ware’s works

Nina Eckhoff-Heindl

7. Homestuck as a game: A webcomic between playful participation, digital technostalgia, and irritating inventory systems

Tim Glaser

8. Metal Gear Solid and its comic adaptations

Claudius Stemmler

Part II: Transmedia expansions

9. Many Spider-Men are better than one: Referencing as narrative strategy

Dominik Mieth

10. The not-so Fantastic Four franchise: A critical history of the comic, the films, and the Disney/Fox merger

Robert Alan Brookey and Nan Zhang

11. The road to Arkham Asylum: Batman: Dark Tomorrow and transitional transmedia

James Fleury

12. When rules collide: Definitional strategies for superheroes across comic books and games

William Uricchio

13. The manifestations of game characters in a media mix strategy

Joleen Blom

14. Creating Lara Croft: The meaning of the comic books for the Tomb Raider franchise

Josefa Much

15. Beyond immersion: Gin Tama and palimpsestuous reception

Susana Tosca