Full Description
This collection offers a multi-faceted exploration of transmediations, the processes of transfer and transformation that occur when communicative acts in one medium are mediated again through another. While previous research has explored these processes from a broader perspective, Salmose and Elleström argue that a better understanding is needed of the extent to which the outcomes of communicative acts are modified when transferred across multimodal media in order to foster a better understanding of communication more generally. Using this imperative as a point of departure, the book details a variety of transmediations, viewed through four different lenses. The first part of the volume looks at narrative transmediations, building on existing work done by Marie-Laure Ryan on transmedia storytelling. The second section focuses on the spatial dynamics involved in media transformation as well as the role of the human body as a perceptive agent and a medium in its own right. The third part investigates new, radical boundaries and media types in transmediality and hence shows its versatility as a method of analyzing complex and contemporary communicative discourses. The fourth and final part explores the challenges involved in transmediating scientific data into the narrative format in the context of environmental issues. Taken together, these sections highlight a range of case studies of transmediations and, in turn, the complexity and variety of the process, informed by the methodologies of the different disciplines to which they belong. This innovative volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars in multimodality, communication, intermediality, semiotics, and adaptation studies.
Contents
Table of Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Contributors
Foreword
Niklas Salmose & Lars Elleström
Transmediation: Some Theoretical Considerations
Lars Elleström
PART 1: Transmedia Storytelling
Transmedia Storytelling and its Discourses
Marie-Laure Ryan
Peter Greenaway's The Tulse Luper Suitcases Project (2003-2005):
Transmedia Storytelling as Self-Reference Multimediality
Fátima Chinita
The Gamification of Cinema and the Cinematization of Games
Doru Pop
PART 2: Ekphrasis
The "Unflinching Gaze"—The Representation of Suffering in Tony Harrison's Film Poetry
Agata Handley
Leaving the White Cube of Ekphrasis: Gordon Matta-Clark's Conical Intersection
Heidrun Führer & Anna Kraus
Architectural Ekphraseis: Unveiling a Brazilian Wall-Less House in Contemporary Fiction
Miriam Vieira
PART 3 : Transmediation: A Broad Media Perspective
The Logic of Cutting Yourself: From Senseless Chaos to Signifying Order
Hans Sternudd
Three Ways of Transmediating a Theme Park: Spatialising Storyworlds in Epic Mickey, the Monkey Island Series and Theme Park Management Simulators
Péter Kristóf Makai
Intersemiotic Translation as a Creative Thinking Tool - From Gertrude Stein to Dance
João Queiroz & Pedro Atã
PART 4: Transmediating the Anthropocene
"We're Doomed -Now What?": Transmediating Temporality into Narrative Forms
Jørgen Bruhn
Transmediations of the Anthropocene: From Factual Media to Poetry
Emma Tornborg
Three Transmediations of the Anthropocene: An Intermedial Ecocritical Reading of Facts, Sci-Fi, PopSci, and Eco-Horror
Niklas Salmose
