Volume 10 : Issue 01 : 2024
The Semiotics of Animation. From Traditional Forms to Contemporary Innovations
Edited by: Maria Ilia Katsaridou & Loukia Kostopoulou
Punctum. is a blind peer-reviewed, on-line journal dedicated to the semiotic study of contemporary cultural texts, practices and processes, published by the Hellenic Semiotic Society, member of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS).
Aspiring to provide a venue for the advancement of international semiotic scholarship, the journal is published twice a year (July & December) in English, although submissions in French and German will be accepted as well. Punctum.’s Editorial Board reflects both its international scope and the diversity of contemporary semiotic research and theory.
Punctum. invites submissions (original research papers, review articles, book reviews) across a wide range of semiotic fields and methodologies on an on-going basis, and regularly puts out calls for special issues with guest editors. The journal’s contents are registered with CrossRef and indexed in Scopus and EBSCO.
Punctum Semiotics Monographs
VOLUME 2: Nicola Dusi and Charo Lacalle (eds.) Chernobyl Calling. Narrative, Intermediality and Cultural Memory of a Docu-fiction.
(Thessaloniki: Hellenic Semiotics Society, 2024, pp. 187, ISBN 972-618-82184-4-4)
Table of Contents
Nicola Dusi and Charo Lacalle, Cultural memory and the transmedia semiosphere – Giorgio Grignaffini, Chernobyl: A miniseries between fiction and reality – Nicola Dusi, History, drama, retelling: Intermedial realism in Chernobyl – Charo Lacalle, Chernobyl reloaded: Renewing disaster fictional narratives through female characters – Paolo Braga, Events that defy storytelling: Narrative and dramaturgical solutions in Chernobyl – Andrea Bernardelli, “In these stories, it doesn’t matter who the heroes are.” Characters’ construction in Chernobyl – Alberto N. García, Chernobyl and the anthropology of sacrifice – Federico Montanari, History, power, and narrative. Chernobyl is still there – Antonella Mascio, Chernobyl: From nuclear disaster to the television series and beyond – Héctor J. Pérez, Chernobyl: The cognitive value of multiplot aesthetics in contemporary television – Ioanna Vovou, The ‘lifeworld’ criterion in HBO’s Chernobyl: An approach of the intentio lectoris – Renira Rampazzo Gambarato and Johannes Heuman, Transcending the blurred boundaries of Chernobyl.
