Meta-narrative Knotenpunkte der Medienkonvergenz: Zu den medienwissenschaftlichen Potenzialen des japanischen kyara-Begriffs

Wilde, Lukas R. A.

doi:10.1515/9783110538724-006

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“…As Lukas Wilde (2018aWilde ( , 2018bWilde ( , 2019aWilde ( , 2019b has recently reconstructed in significantly greater detail, however, the Japanese discourse in fact offers a sophisticated terminological and conceptual apparatus to think through some of the issues connected to the representation of characters across media. Drawing on influential Japanese cultural theorists such as Azuma Hiroki (2001, Itō Gō (2005; see also Itō et al 2007), and Odagiri Hiroshi (2010), Wilde distinguishes between the kyarakutā (character) as "a fictitious being represented to exist within a diegetic domain (storyworld)" (2019a: 4-5) and the kyara as "a stylized or simplified visual figuration that can be easily reproduced and consumed outside of its original narrative context" (2019a: 5).…”

Section: Conceptualizing Charactersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transmedia characters: Theory and analysis

Thon

2019

Frontiers of Narrative Studies

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This article sketches a theoretical framework and method for the analysis of transmedia characters that focuses on specific instantiations of these characters in individual media texts, before asking how these local work-specific characters relate to other local work-specific characters or coalesce into glocal transmedia characters as part of global transmedia character networks, thus evading what one could consider an undue emphasis on the "model of the single character" when analyzing the various characters that are, for example called Sherlock Holmes, Batman, or Lara Croft. The connections between these work-specific characters within transmedia character network could then be described as either relations of redundancy, relations of expansion, or relations of modificationwith only redundancy and expansion allowing for medial representations of work-specific characters to contribute to the representation of a single transmedia character. In intersubjectively constructing characters across media, however, recipients will not only take into account powerful normative discourses that police the representation of characters across media but also draw on their accumulated knowledge about previously represented work-specific or transmedia characters as well as about transmedia character templates and even more general transmedia character types.

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Section: Conceptualizing Charactersmentioning

confidence: 99%