Narratives Crossing Boundaries

As the dominant narrative forms in the age of media convergence, films and games call for a transmedial perspective in narratology. Games allow a participatory reception of the story, bringing the transgression of the ontological boundary between the narrated world and the world of the recipient into focus. These diverse transgressions – medial and ontological – are the subject of this transdisciplinary compendium, which covers the subject in an interdisciplinary way from various perspectives: game studies and media studies, but also sociology and psychology, to take into account the great influence of storytelling on social discourses and human behavior.

Joachim Friedmann (Prof. Dr.) is a script- and headwriter for award-winning television series, a comic book author for Disney, Egmont, and Carlsen and a writer for Serious Games. As a storytelling consultant, he has worked for institutions and companies like Microsoft, the German Federal Ministry of Environment or the German Soccer Federation DFB, creating educational and interactive online formats. He teaches serial, transmedial, and interactive storytelling at Universität Hildesheim, Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in Potsdam, the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH, and the Hamburg Media School. Since 2017 he has been a professor at the Internationale Filmschule Köln (ifs), heading the masters course in serial storytelling.