The Winter School Mediality and Multimodality across Media examines the forms and functions of a wide variety of multimodal media forms from a range of different (inter)disciplinary perspectives. The keynote speakers will include Charles Forceville (Amsterdam), who is going to discuss Multimodality in Comics. Related issues will also be investigated in the paper presentations, for instance:

Benoît Crucifix (Leuven):
Frozen Moments. Database Logic and Narrative Drawing in Chris Ware’s Building Stories

Lukas R.A. Wilde (Tübingen):
Distinguishing Mediality. The Interplay between Modes and Conceptual Forms in Digital Comics

Fabian Gregori (Dresden):
To Cry Wolf in the Digital Age: Transmedial Narrative in Bill Willingham’s Fables and Telltale Games‘ The Wolf Among Us

Full program and additional information

Organization
Klaus Sachs-Hombach & Jan-Noël Thon
Department of Media Studies
University of Tübingen