Maike Sarah Reinerth - Böcker

Media in general and narrative media in particular have the potential to represent not only a variety of both possible and actual worlds but also the perception and consciousness of characters in these worlds. Hence, media can be understood as "qualia machines," as technologies that allow for the production of subjective experiences within the affordances and limitations posed by the conventions of their specific mediality. This edited collection examines the transmedial as well as the medium-specific strategies employed by the verbal representations characteristic for literary texts, the verbal-pictorial representations characteristic for comics, the audiovisual representations characteristic for films, and the interactive representations characteristic for video games. Combining theoretical perspectives from analytic philosophy, cognitive theory, and narratology with approaches from phenomenology, psychosemiotics, and social semiotics, the contributions collected in this volume provide a state-of-the-art map of current research on a wide variety of ways in which subjectivity can be represented across conventionally distinct media.

Media in general and narrative media in particular have the potential to represent not only a variety of both possible and actual worlds but also the perception and consciousness of characters in these worlds. Hence, media can be understood as "qualia machines," as technologies that allow for the production of subjective experiences within the affordances and limitations posed by the conventions of their specific mediality. This edited collection examines the transmedial as well as the medium-specific strategies employed by the verbal representations characteristic for literary texts, the verbal-pictorial representations characteristic for comics, the audiovisual representations characteristic for films, and the interactive representations characteristic for video games. Combining theoretical perspectives from analytic philosophy, cognitive theory, and narratology with approaches from phenomenology, psychosemiotics, and social semiotics, the contributions collected in this volume provide a state-of-the-art map of current research on a wide variety of ways in which subjectivity can be represented across conventionally distinct media.

Der Sammelband analysiert die grundsätzliche Bedeutung, die Animation in unserer medialisierten Welt einnimmt. Animation bewegt Bilder, Emotionen, die Kunst, die Industrie und wandelt auch die Forschung – sie stellt traditionelle Disziplinen und Theorien des (Audio-)Visuellen vor neue Herausforderungen.

Animation ist umfangreich, heterogen und allgegenwärtig. Ihre Bandbreite reicht von abstrakten Formexperimenten, über den Zeichentrick- und animierten Puppenfilm bis zu computergenerierten Oberflächen. Aus diesem Grund kann nicht von einer Animationsforschung im Sinne einer klar abgesteckten Disziplin gesprochen werden, sondern von einer Vielzahl an Theorien, Methoden und Forschungsfeldern. Das Handbuch führt in diese Felder ein und bietet einen Überblick über zentrale Bezugspunkte der interdisziplinären Animation Studies. Die Beiträge von 36 Autor_innen fassen bisherige relevante, historische, theoretische und analytische Erkenntnisse über Animation zusammen, machen aber auch Potenziale und Veränderungen durch die zunehmende Digitalisierung deutlich und geben Impulse für zukünftige Bereiche der Animationsforschung.