As technology continues to advance, science fiction films are adopting new narrative forms. The Hollywood-produced film “Dune” follows the traditional model while also absorbing elements from popular culture, thus becoming a type of secular mythology. It takes one step further and becomes what Deleuze describes as paradigm cinematic narrative, known “pure optical sound situations”. By studying ...

This article is devoted to the German-Jewish writer Arnold Zweig’s (1887–1968) biographical novella Symphonie Fantastique (1943), told from perspective of a young musicologist participating in World War II, applied life and work French composer Hector Berlioz. Zweig not only writes biography one most prominent composers for Harold Breton, but he also confronts Vichy Regime. The aim this capture...

Acknowledging that narratives are an important resource in human communication and cognition, the focus of this article is on the cognitive aspects of involvement with visual and auditory non-verbal narratives, particularly in relation to the newest immersive media and digital interactive representational technologies. We consider three relevant trends in narrative studies that have emerged in ...

When game studies has tackled the player-character, it has tended to do so by means of an oppositon to the notion of the avatar, with the result that the ontological and semiotic nature of the character in itself has not been given due attention. This paper draws on understandings of character from the fields of narratology and literary theory to highlight the double-layered ontology of charact...