In this article, I analyze the 2018 video game Detroit: Become Human as a potentially
political text from the perspective of literary and cultural studies. I argue that it features and …

This article examines how femaleness and femininity are constructed in the 2020 video
game The Last of Us Part II (TLoU2), analyzing how it imagines gender narratively, visually …

In this article, we examine the first season of HBO's TV show Westworld (2016-present) to
analyse whether and how it imagines the American West nostalgically. From the perspective …

The study of US popular culture has long focused—mostly implicitly—on a particular
symbolic form: narrative. Popular crime-fiction or science-fiction novels, movie blockbusters …

In his moody long-form essay HP Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life (1991), Michel
Houellebecq quips that the horror fiction writer “serves as example to all who wish to learn …

Populated by compelling characters and replete with intertextual allusions, the HBO series
Westworld's intricate plot encourages the high viewer engagement characteristic of …

This thesis considers narrative complexity within the videogame medium. Narrative
complexity refers to stories that are difficult to follow or hard to understand. I explore the …

Dieser einleitende Beitrag verortet die realitätsaffine Fernsehserienkultur der Gegenwart in
der aktuellen Konjunktur von Realitätsbehauptungen (und-anfechtungen) als Ressourcen …

Choices are a core feature of video games in all kinds of shapes and disguises–from the
very basic decision of where to go in a three-dimensional space, to dialog options from …

This thesis explores the multifaceted world of transmedia storytelling, with a particular focus
on the adaptation of narratives across different media platforms. The study delves into the …