Transmediations : communication across media borders / edited by Niklas Salmose and Lars Elleström

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 6 List of Table and Figures 8 List of Contributors 10 Foreword • Niklas Salmose & Lars Elleström 14 1 Transmediation: Some Theoretical Considerations • Lars Elleström 18 Part I: Transmedia Storytelling 32 2 Transmedia Storytelling and Its Discourses • Marie-Laure Ryan 34 3 Peter Greenaway’s The Tulse Luper Suitcases Project (2003−2005): Transmedia Storytelling as Self-Reference Multimediality • Fátima Chinita 48 4 The Gamification of Cinema and the Cinematization of Games • Doru Pop 69 Part II: Ekphrasis 92 5 The “Unflinching Gaze”: The Representation of Suffering in Tony Harrison’s Film Poetry • Agata Handley 94 6 Leaving the White Cube of Ekphrasis: Gordon Matta-Clark’s Conical Intersection • Heidrun Führer and Anna Kraus 114 7 Architectural Ekphraseis: Unveiling a Brazilian Wall-Less House in Contemporary Fiction • Miriam Vieira 135 Part III: Transmediation: A Broad Media Perspective 154 8 The Logic of Cutting Yourself: From Senseless Chaos to Signifying Order • Hans T. Sternudd 156 9 Three Ways of Transmediating a Theme Park: Spatializing Storyworlds in Epic Mickey , the Monkey Island Series and Theme Park Management Simulators • P.ter Krist.f Makai 181 10 Intersemiotic Translation as a Creative Thinking Tool: From Gertrude Stein to Dance • João Queiroz and Pedro Atã 203 Part IV: Transmediating the Anthropocene 232 11 “We’re Doomed – Now What?”: Transmediating Temporality Into Narrative Forms • Jørgen Bruhn 234 12 Transmediations of the Anthropocene: From Factual Media to Poetry • Emma Tornborg 252 13 Three Transmediations of the Anthropocene: An Intermedial Ecocritical Reading of Facts, Sci-Fi, PopSci and Eco-Horror • Niklas Salmose 271 Index 291