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This is a unique feat of narratology, deployed upon an impressive repertoire of contemporary media culture. There simply is no other book that so thoroughly and precisely develops the concept of transmediality. -Susana P. Tosca, coauthor of Understanding Video Games: The Essential Introduction -- Susana P. Tosca Remarkably well informed and thoroughly researched, precise in any criticisms, and elegantly moving through a tremendous amount of work on the various topics, this is an important book for narrative theory and media studies alike. -Daniel Punday, author of Writing at the Limit: The Novel in the New Media Ecology -- Daniel Punday The adage that `narrative is everywhere' has always been in need of a theoretical frame and method for analysis, and Thon's carefully argued and well-researched book takes an important step toward such a genuinely transmedial narratology. -Karin Kukkonen, author of Contemporary Comics Storytelling -- Karin Kukkonen This book is a sustained and utterly convincing demonstration of transmedial narrative theory's ability to address the construction of twenty-first-century storyworlds in films, comics, and video games. -Jared Gardner, author of Projections: Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling -- Jared Gardner An extremely valuable contribution to the efforts of achieving a truly transmedial perspective without losing sight of the media-specific aspects of texts. -Sarah E. Beyvers, KULT Online -- Sarah E. Beyvers * KULT Online * An excellent contribution to transmedial narratology. -Hans-Joachim Backe, Diegesis: Interdisciplinary E-Journal for Narrative Research -- Hans-Joachim Backe * Diegesis: Interdisciplinary E-Journal for Narrative Research * Thorough, well-grounded in prominent theory, and useful for scholars of contemporary media and narrative theory. -Erica McCrystal, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics -- Erica McCrystal * Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics *

This is a unique feat of narratology, deployed upon an impressive repertoire of contemporary media culture. There simply is no other book that so thoroughly and precisely develops the concept of transmediality. Susana P. Tosca, coauthor of Understanding Video Games: The Essential Introduction --Susana P. Tosca (09/15/2015)

This book is a sustained and utterly convincing demonstration of transmedial narrative theory's ability to address the construction of twenty-first-century storyworlds in films, comics, and video games. -Jared Gardner, author of Projections: Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling -- Jared Gardner The adage that 'narrative is everywhere' has always been in need of a theoretical frame and method for analysis, and Thon's carefully argued and well-researched book takes an important step toward such a genuinely transmedial narratology. -Karin Kukkonen, author of Contemporary Comics Storytelling -- Karin Kukkonen Remarkably well informed and thoroughly researched, precise in any criticisms, and elegantly moving through a tremendous amount of work on the various topics, this is an important book for narrative theory and media studies alike. -Daniel Punday, author of Writing at the Limit: The Novel in the New Media Ecology -- Daniel Punday This is a unique feat of narratology, deployed upon an impressive repertoire of contemporary media culture. There simply is no other book that so thoroughly and precisely develops the concept of transmediality. -Susana P. Tosca, coauthor of Understanding Video Games: The Essential Introduction -- Susana P. Tosca

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Jan-Noël Thon is an assistant professor in media studies and digital media culture at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the coeditor of a number of books on narrative and media studies, including Storyworlds across Media: Toward a Media-Conscious Narratology (Nebraska, 2014) and Subjectivity across Media: Interdisciplinary and Transmedial Perspectives.  

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