Backmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Editors’ preface 1
4. Fiction, Cognition, and Non-Verbal Media 8
5. Narrativity and Segmentivity, or, Poetry in the Gutter 27
6. Vulgar Metaphysicians: William S. Burroughs, Alan Moore, Art Spiegelman, and the Medium of the Book 49
7. Previously On: Prime Time Serials and the Mechanics of Memory 78
8. The Paranoid Style in Narrative: The Anxiety of Storytelling After 9/11 99
9. Inter-Action Movies: Multi-Protagonist Films and Relationism 122
10. All Talking! All Singing! All Dancing! Prolegomena: On Film Musicals and Narrative 147
11. Photo Narrative, Sequential Photography, Photonovels 165
12. The Failure of Art: Problems of Verbal and Visual Representation in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men 183
13. Interactivity and Interaction: Text and Talk in Online Communities 208
14. Games of Interpretation and a Graphophiliac God of War 232
15. Advertising the Medium: On the Narrative Worlds of a Multimedia Promotional Campaign for a Public Service Television Channel 258
16. The Narrative Worlds and Multimodal Figures of House of Leaves: “— find your own words; I have no more” 285
17. Intermedial Metarepresentations 312
18. Backmatter 333