Books (Monographs)
Thon, Jan-Noël: Transmedial Narratology and Contemporary Media Culture. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 2016. Paperback edition 2018.
Reviewed in Diegesis, European Comic Art, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, KULT online, Style.
Packard, Stephan/Andreas Rauscher/Véronique Sina/Jan-Noël Thon/Lukas R.A. Wilde/Janina Wildfeuer: Comicanalyse. Eine Einführung. Stuttgart: Metzler 2019
Books (as Editor)
Rauscher, Andreas/Stein, Daniel/Jan-Noël Thon (eds.): Comics and Videogames: From Hybrid Medialities to Transmedia Expansions. New York: Routledge 2020.
Backe, Hans-Joachim/Julia Eckel/Erwin Feyersinger/Véronique Sina/Jan-Noël Thon (eds.): Ästhetik des Gemachten: Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zur Animations- und Comicforschung. Berlin: De Gruyter 2018.
Reinerth, Maike Sarah/Jan-Noël Thon (eds.): Subjectivity across Media. Interdisciplinary and Transmedial Perspectives. New York: Routledge 2017.
Sachs-Hombach, Klaus/Jan-Noël Thon (eds.): Game Studies. Aktuelle Ansätze der Computerspielforschung. Köln: Herbert von Halem 2015. [Table of Contents.]
Reviewed in c't, KULT_online, Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, MEDIENwissenschaft, r:k:m, spieleforschung.de, [Statement].
Ryan, Marie-Laure/Jan-Noël Thon (eds.): Storyworlds across Media. Toward a Media-Conscious Narratology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 2014. [Table of Contents.]
Reviewed in Big Muddy, Enthymema, Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism, Image [&] Narrative, Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik, Style, University of Bukarest Review, Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Zeitschrift für Fantastikforschung, Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft.
Stein, Daniel/Jan-Noël Thon (eds.): From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels. Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative. Berlin: De Gruyter 2013. 2nd edition 2015. [Table of Contents.]
Reviewed in Anglia, DIEGESIS, European Comic Art, Image [&] Narrative, ImageText 7.3, ImageText 7.4, MEDIENwissenschaft, KULT_online, Scandinavian Journal of Comic Art, Style.
Grabienski, Olaf/Till Huber/Jan-Noël Thon (eds.): Poetik der Oberfläche. Die deutschsprachige Popliteratur der 1990er Jahre. Berlin: De Gruyter 2011. [Table of Contents.]
Reviewed in literaturkritik.de, Glarean Magazin.
Birr, Hannah/Maike Reinerth/Jan-Noël Thon: Probleme filmischen Erzählens. Münster: LIT 2009. [Table of Contents.]
Reviewed in IASL online, Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie.
Journal Issues (as Guest-Editor)
Thon, Jan-Noël (ed.): Playfulness across Media. Special Issue Eludamos 12.1 (2021).
Sachs-Hombach, Klaus/Jan-Noël Thon (eds.): Multimodal Media. Special Issue Poetics Today 40.2 (2019).
Thon, Jan-Noël/Lukas R.A. Wilde (eds.): Characters across Media. Special Issue Frontiers of Narrative Studies 5.2 (2019).
Thon, Jan-Noël/Thomas Wilke (eds.): Sound in den Medien. Special Issue SPIEL. Neue Folge. Journal of Media Culture 3.2 (2017).
Kuhn, Markus/Jan-Noël Thon (eds.): Transmedial Narratology. Current Approaches. Special Issue Narrative 25.3 (2017).
Thon, Jan-Noël/Lukas R.A. Wilde (eds.): Mediality and Materiality of Contemporary Comics. Special Issue Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 7.3 (2016).
Thon, Jan-Noël (ed.): Transmedial Worlds in Convergent Media Culture. Special Issue Storyworlds. A Journal of Narrative Studies 7.2 (2015). [JStor; Muse.]
Beil, Benjamin/Klaus Sachs-Hombach/Jan-Noël Thon (eds.): Media Convergence and Transmedial Worlds (Part 3)/Medienkonvergenz und transmediale Welten (Teil 3). Special Issue 22 IMAGE (2015).
Beil, Benjamin/Klaus Sachs-Hombach/Jan-Noël Thon (eds.): Media Convergence and Transmedial Worlds (Part 2)/Medienkonvergenz und transmediale Welten (Teil 2). Special Issue 21 IMAGE (2015).
Beil, Benjamin/Klaus Sachs-Hombach/Jan-Noël Thon (eds.): Medienkonvergenz und transmediale Welten (Teil 1)/Media Convergence and Transmedial Worlds (Part 1). Special Issue 20 IMAGE (2014).
Bartels, Klaus/Jan-Noël Thon (eds.): Computer/Spiel/Räume. Materialien zur Einführung in die Computer Game Studies. Hamburger Hefte zur Medienkultur 5 (2007).
Book Chapters and Journal Articles
2021
Thon, Jan-Noël: "Comics Narratology." In: Sebastian Domsch/Dan Hassler-Forest/Dirk Vanderbecke (eds.): Handbook of Comics and Graphic Narratives. Berlin: De Gruyter 2021 (pp. 99-120).
Thon, Jan-Noël: "Introduction. Playfulness across Media." In: Eludamos 12.1 (2019): 1-12.
2020
Bodi, Bettina/Jan-Noël Thon: "Playing Stories? Narrative-Dramatic Agency in Astroneer (2019) and Disco Elysium (2019)." In: Frontiers of Narrative Studies 6.2 (2020): 157-190.
Rauscher, Andreas/Daniel Stein/Jan-Noël Thon: "Introduction. Comics and Videogames." In: Andreas Rauscher/Daniel Stein/Jan-Noël Thon (eds.): Comics and Videogames. From Hybrid Medialities to Transmedia Expansions. New York: Routledge 2020 (pp. 1-14).
Thon, Jan-Noël: "Fiktionalität in Film- und Medienwissenschaft." In: Lut Missinne/Ralf Schneider/Beatrix van Dam (eds.): Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft. Fiktionalität. Berlin: De Gruyter 2020 (pp. 520-544).
2019
Backe, Hans-Joachim/Jan-Noël Thon: "Playing with Identity. Authors, Narrators, Avatars, and Players in The Stanley Parable and The Beginner’s Guide." In: Diegesis 8.2 (2019): 1-25.
Etter, Lukas/Jan-Noël Thon: "Beyond the Written Word. Graphic Novels in the Twenty-First Century." In: Sibylle Baumbach/Birgit Neumann (eds.): New Approaches to the Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Novel. New York: Springer 2019 (pp. 277-296).
Sachs-Hombach, Klaus/Jan-Noël Thon: "Introduction. Multimodal Media." Poetics Today 40.2 (2019): 183-187.
Thon, Jan-Noël: "Playing with Fear. The Aesthetics of Horror in Recent Indie Games." Eludamos 10.1 (2019): 197-231.
Thon, Jan-Noël: "Post/Documentary. Referential Multimodality in 'Animated Documentaries' and 'Documentary Games'." Poetics Today 40.2 (2019): 269-297.
Thon, Jan-Noël: "Transmedia Characters. Theory and Analysis." Frontiers of Narrative Studies 5.2 (2019): 176-199.
Thon, Jan-Noël/Lukas Wilde: "Introduction. Characters across Media." Frontiers of Narrative Studies 5.2 (2019): 169-175.
2018
Backe, Hans-Joachim/Julia Eckel/Erwin Feyersinger/Véronique Sina/Jan-Noël Thon: "Einführung: Zur Ästhetik des Gemachten." In: Hans-Joachim Backe/Julia Eckel/Erwin Feyersinger/Véronique Sina/Jan-Noël Thon (eds.): Ästhetik des Gemachten: Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zur Animations- und Comicforschung. Berlin: De Gruyter 2018 (pp. 1-9).
Etter, Lukas/Jan-Noël Thon: "Intermediales Erzählen im Comic." In: Martin Huber/Wolf Schmid (eds.): Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft. Erzählen. Berlin: De Gruyter 2018 (pp. 485-498).
Thon, Jan-Noël: "A Narratological Perspective on Transmedial Storyworlds and Transmedial Universes." In: Matthew Freeman/Renira Rampazzo Gambarato (eds.): The Routledge Companion to Transmedia Studies. New York: Routledge 2018 (pp. 375-382).
2017
Kuhn, Markus/Jan-Noël Thon: "Guest Editors' Column. Transmedial Narratology. Current Approaches." Narrative 25.3 (2017): 253-255.
Reinerth, Maike Sarah/Jan-Noël Thon: "Introduction. Subjectivity across Media." In: Maike Sarah Reinerth/Jan-Noël Thon (eds.): Subjectivity across Media. Interdisciplinary and Transmedial Perspectives. New York: Routledge 2017 (pp. 1-25).
Thon, Jan-Noël: "Transmedial Narratology Revisited. On the Intersubjective Construction of Storyworlds and the Problem of Representational Correspondence in Films, Comics, and Video Games." Narrative 25.3 (2017): 286-320.
Thon, Jan-Noël/Thomas Wilke: "Sound in den Medien. Medienkulturwissenschaftliche Annäherung an ein allgegenwärtiges Phänomen." SPIEL. Neue Folge. Journal of Media Culture 3.2 (2017): 7-11.
2016
Thon, Jan-Noël: "Narrative Comprehension and Video Game Storyworlds." In: Bernard Perron/Felix Schröter (eds.): Video Games and the Mind. Essays on Cognition, Affect and Emotion. Jefferson: McFarland 2016 (pp. 15-31).
Thon, Jan-Noël/Lukas R.A. Wilde: "Introduction. Mediality and Materiality of Contemporary Comics." Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 7.3 (2016): 233-241.
2015
Sachs-Hombach, Klaus/Jan-Noël Thon: "Einleitung. Game Studies und Medienwissenschaft." In: Klaus Sachs-Hombach/Jan-Noël Thon (eds.): Game Studies. Aktuelle Ansätze der Computerspielforschung. Cologne: Herbert von Halem 2015 (pp. 9-27).
Thon, Jan-Noël: "Converging Worlds. From Transmedial Storyworlds to Transmedial Universes." Storyworlds. A Journal of Narrative Studies 7.2 (2015): 21-53.
Thon, Jan-Noël: "Game Studies und Narratologie." In: Klaus Sachs-Hombach/Jan-Noël Thon (eds.): Game Studies. Aktuelle Ansätze der Computerspielforschung. Cologne: Herbert von Halem 2015 (pp. 104-164).
Thon, Jan-Noël: "Guest Editor's Column." Storyworlds. A Journal of Narrative Studies 7.2 (2015): ix-xv.
Thon, Jan-Noël: "Narratives across Media and the Outlines of a Media-Conscious Narratology." In: Gabriele Rippl (ed.): Handbook of Intermediality. Literature - Image - Sound - Music. Berlin: De Gruyter 2015 (pp. 439-456).
2014
Ryan, Marie-Laure/Jan-Noël Thon: "Storyworlds across Media. Introduction." In: Marie-Laure Ryan/Jan-Noël Thon (eds.): Storyworlds across Media. Toward a Media-Conscious Narratology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 2014 (pp. 1-21).
Schöter, Felix/Jan-Noël Thon: "Video Game Characters. Theory and Analysis." Diegesis 3.1: 40-77. [Download.]
Thon, Jan-Noël: "Fiktionalität in Film- und Medienwissenschaft." In: Tobias Klauk/Tilmann Köppe (eds.): Fiktionalität. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch. Berlin: De Gruyter 2014 (pp. 443-466).
Thon, Jan-Noël: "Immersion"; "Mediality"; "Narrativity." In: Marie-Laure Ryan/Lori Emerson/Benjamin J. Robertson (eds.): Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2014 (pp. 269-272; 334-337; 351-355).
Thon, Jan-Noël: "Subjectivity across Media. On Strategies of Subjective Representation in Contemporary Feature Films, Graphic Novels, and Computer Games." In: Marie-Laure Ryan/Jan-Noël Thon (eds.): Storyworlds across Media. Toward a Media-Conscious Narratology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 2014 (pp. 67-102).
Thon, Jan-Noël: "Toward a Transmedial Narratology. On Narrators in Contemporary Graphic Novels, Feature Films, and Computer Games." In: Jan Alber/Per Krogh Hansen (eds.): Beyond Classical Narration. Transmedial and Unnatural Challenges. Berlin: De Gruyter 2014 (pp. 25-56).
2013
Schröter, Felix/Jan-Noël Thon: "Simulierte Spielfiguren und/oder/als mediale Menschenbilder." In: Jens Eder/Joseph Imorde/Maike Sarah Reinerth (eds.): Medialität und Menschenbild. Berlin: De Gruyter 2013 (pp. 119-143). [Download.]
Stein, Daniel/Jan-Noël Thon: "Introduction. From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels." In: Daniel Stein/Jan-Noël Thon (eds.): From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels. Contribution to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative. Berlin: De Gruyter 2013 (pp. 1-23).
Thon, Jan-Noël: "Who's Telling the Tale? Authors and Narrators in Graphic Narrative." In: Daniel Stein/Jan-Noël Thon (eds.): From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels. Contribution to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative. Berlin: De Gruyter 2013 (pp. 67-99).
2012
Eder, Jens/Jan-Noël Thon: "Digitale Figuren in Kinofilm und Computerspiel." In: Harro Segeberg (ed.): Film im Zeitalter neuer Medien II. Digitalität und Kino. München: Wilhelm Fink 2012 (pp. 139-181). [Download.]
2011
Grabienski, Olaf/Till Huber/Jan-Noël Thon: "Auslotung der Oberfäche." In: Olaf Grabienski/Till Huber/Jan-Noël Thon (eds.): Poetik der Oberfläche. Die deutschsprachige Popliteratur der 1990er Jahre. Berlin: De Gruyter 2011 (pp. 1-10).
Thon, Jan-Noël: "Computerspiele und der War on Terror." In: Norbert Greiner/Felix Sprang (eds.): Lesarten des Terrorismus Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag 2011 (pp. 227-241). [Download.]
2009
Thon, Jan-Noël: "Computer Games, Fictional Worlds, and Transmedia Storytelling. A Narratological Perspective." In: John R. Sageng (ed.): Proceedings of the Philosophy of Computer Games Conference 2009. Oslo: University of Oslo (pp. 1-6). [External download.]
Thon, Jan-Noël: "Mind-Bender. Zur Popularisierung komplexer narrativer Strukturen im amerikanischen Kino der 1990er Jahre." In: Sophia Komor/Rebekka Rohleder (eds.): Post-Coca-Colanization. Zurück zur Vielfalt? Frankfurt a.M.: P. Lang 2009 (pp. 171-188). [Download.]
Thon, Jan-Noël: "Perspective in Contemporary Computer Games." In: Peter Hühn/Wolf Schmid/Jörg Schönert (eds.): Point of View, Perspective, and Focalization. Modeling Mediation in Narrative. Berlin: De Gruyter 2009 (pp. 279-299). [Download.]
Thon, Jan-Noël: "Zur Metalepse im Film." In: Hannah Birr/Maike Sarah Reinerth/Jan-Noël Thon (eds.): Probleme filmischen Erzählens. Münster: LIT 2009 (pp. 85-110).
Thon, Jan-Noël: "Zur Struktur des Ego-Shooters." In: Matthias Bopp/Rolf F. Nohr/Serjoscha Wiemer (eds.): Shooter. Eine multidisziplinäre Einführung. Münster: LIT 2009 (pp. 21-41). [Unfortunately, an incorrect version of the text has been printed. You can find the correct version here.]
2008
Thon, Jan-Noël: "Immersion Revisited. On the Value of a Contested Concept." In: Amyris Fernandez/Olli Leino/Hanna Wirman (eds.): Extending Experiences. Structure, Analysis and Design of Computer Game Player Experience. Rovaniemi: Lapland University Press 2008 (pp. 29-43). [Download.]
2007
Thon, Jan-Noël: "Kommunikation im Computerspiel." In: Simone Kimpeler/Michael Mangold/Wolfgang Schweiger (eds.): Die digitale Herausforderung. Zehn Jahre Forschung zur computervermittelten Kommunikation. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag 2007 (pp. 171-180). [Download.]
Thon, Jan-Noël: "Schauplätze und Ereignisse. Über Erzähltechniken im Computerspiel des 21. Jahrhunderts." In: Corinna Müller/Irina Scheidgen (eds.): Mediale Ordnungen. Erzählen, Archivieren, Beschreiben. Marburg: Schüren 2007 (pp. 40-55). [Download.]
Thon, Jan-Noël: "Simulation vs. Narration. Zur Darstellung fiktionaler Welten in neueren Computerspielen." In: Andreas Becker/Doreen Hartmann/Don C. Lorey/Andrea Nolte (eds.): Medien - Diskurse - Deutungen. Beiträge des 20. Film- und Fernsehwissenschaftlichen Kolloquiums. Marburg: Schüren 2007 (pp. 68-76). [Download.]
Thon, Jan-Noël: "Unendliche Weiten? Schauplätze, fiktionale Welten und soziale Räume heutiger Computerspiele." In: Klaus Bartels/Jan-Noël Thon (eds.): Computer/Spiel/Räume. Materialien zur Einführung in die Computer Game Studies. Hamburg: Universität Hamburg 2007 (pp. 29-60). [Download.]
2006
Thon, Jan-Noël: "Communication and Interaction in Multiplayer First-Person-Shooter Games." In: Giuseppe Riva et al. (eds.): From Communication to Presence. Cognition, Emotions and Culture towards the Ultimate Communicative Experience. Festschrift in honor of Luigi Anolli. Amsterdam: IOS Press 2006 (pp. 239-261). [External download (page numbers +4).]
Thon, Jan-Noël: "Immersion revisited. Varianten von Immersion im Computerspiel des 21. Jahrhunderts." In: Christian Hißnauer/Andreas Jahn-Sudmann (eds.): Medien - Zeit - Zeichen. Beiträge des 19. Film- und Fernsehwissenschaftlichen Kolloquiums. Marburg: Schüren 2006 (pp. 125-132). [Download.]
Thon, Jan-Noël: "Toward a Model of Perspective in Contemporary Computer Games." [External download.]
