Comics and Videogames. From Hybrid Medialities to Transmedia Expansions

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Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of contents
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Contributors
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Comics and videogames
	From hybrid medialities to transmedia expansions
	Part I: Hybrid medialities
	Part II: Transmedia expansions
	Works cited
Part I Hybrid medialities
	2 Of Pac-Men and Star Raiders: Early mutual representations between comics and videogames (1981–1983)
		Videogames as untethered icons, using icons without remediation
		Remediation as a narrative supplement
		Remediation as engagement
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works cited
	3 Interfacing comics and games: A socio-affective multimodal approach
		Multimodality
		Analyses and discussion
		Tracing trajectories
		Envisioning an affective multimodal approach
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works cited
	4 Game comics: Theory and design
		Videogames and comics
		Hybridizing comics and games
		A Duck Has an Adventure
		Icarus Needs
		Margaret Must Succeed
		Conclusion
		Works cited
	5 Game-comics and comic-games: Against the concept of hybrids
		Hybridity and prototype theory
			Theoretical problems of concepts of hybridity
			Key characteristics of a family resemblance?
			Prototype theory and knowledge organization
		Examples and discussion
			Game-comics and comic-games as a hybrid genre?
			Particular examples as hybrids in a narrow sense?
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works cited
	6 Building stories: The interplay of comics and games in Chris Ware’s works
		“‘Fairy Tale’ Road Rage,” or: How comics correlate with games
		Building Stories, or: How game structures invade comics
		The interplay of games and comics in Ware’s works, or: Some concluding thoughts
		Acknowledgement
		Notes
		Works cited
	7 Homestuck as a game: A webcomic between playful participation, digital technostalgia,    and irritating inventory systems
		Welcome to Homestuck
		Forensic fandom and technostalgia in Homestuck
		Homestuck as a game
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works cited
	8 Metal Gear Solid and its comics adaptations
		Narration and narrative
			The games
			The comics
			The digital graphic novels
		Presentation
			The games
			The comics
			The digital graphic novels
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works cited
	Part II Transmedia expansions
	9 Many Spider-Men are better than one: Referencing as a narrative strategy
		Theoretical perspectives
		A character component model
		The comic books
		The movies
		The games
		Conclusions
		Works cited
	10 The not-so Fantastic Four franchise: A critical history of the comic, the films, and the Disney/Fox merger
		The trouble with Oswald
		The rise of Marvel Studios
		From the Fantastic Four to the not-so-fantastic
		Disney and Fox
		A word about fan culture and political economy
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works cited
	11 The road to Arkham Asylum: Batman: Dark Tomorrow and transitional transmedia
		Approaches to studying and franchising Batman
		The transmedia “failure” of Batman: Dark Tomorrow and    the transmedia “success” of Batman: Arkham Asylum
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works cited
	12 When rules collide: Definitional strategies for superheroes across comic books and games
		Superheroes and story generators…
		In the beginning was the word: Bibles
		The rules of play: Games
		Pulling the pieces together
		Notes
		Works cited
	13 The manifestations of game characters in a media mix strategy
		Transmedia characters
		Characters in the media mix
		The problem with games and narrative media
		Characters in Persona 5
		Persona 5’s system of affection
		The system of affection in the Persona 5 media mix strategy
		The identities of the characters
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
		Works cited
	14 Creating Lara Croft: The meaning of the comic books for the Tomb Raider franchise
		Overview
		Learning and educational potentials
		Significance of the comic books
			Extension of the storyworld
			Fan-generated content
			Closure of gaps in the videogames/storyworld
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works cited
	15 Beyond immersion: Gin Tama and palimpsestuous reception
		Gin Tama’s transgressions
		Experiencing Gin Tama: “The Monty Python of anime”
		The palimpsest as an alternative reception metaphor
		Notes
		Works cited
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