No. 6 (2018): Media characters: theory, problems, analyses

The development that narrative studies have known in recent years has been based on relevant theoretical contributions, proposals for analytical work and epistemological and operative mutations that have recovered, to the centre of the analysis, a category neglected for decades: the character.

It is mainly from the end of the 90s, when the field of narrative studies departs from the structuralist matrix of narratology, that a significant production around the character begins. Since then, the disciplinary area of Narrative Studies has gradually opened its field of study, following the technological evolution of narrative production modes as well as changes in cultural consumption habits. If, for decades and under the regency of Gérard Genette, literary narrative has been the main object of narratology, with the valorisation of other narrative forms and languages, the research has been dedicated to these new cultural phenomena: from cinema to digital literature, from video games to multimedia reports, from radionovelas to photography, from telenovelas to transmedia narratives. These new perspectives, especially emerging at the end of the 20th century, are seen as "the narrative turning point of the humanities" by such reference authors as Martin Kreiswirth (1994).