Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. On Transcodification: A Proposal for a Code-Oriented Approach to Adaptation and Intermediality 1
4. Section 1 Theories
5. “Various Are the Incidents in One Man’s Life Which Cannot Be Reduced to Unity”. First Aristotelian Lesson on Transcodification 13
6. Transcodifications of the Real: ‘Presence,’ Nature, and Artifice in Historiography and Art 23
7. Cinema’s Affective and Metaleptic Intermediality 37
8. Telling Stories with Objects: Narrative and Materiality 53
9. The Impossible Transcodification. What if Performance Does Not Deal with the Mediascape? 65
10. A Poetics of App Fiction 71
11. Section 2 Words and Images
12. The Survival of Painting: Cinematic and Literary Tableaux Vivants 83
13. Ekphrastic Transformations of the Nude in Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In and Nuala Ní Chonchúir’s Nude 93
14. Musical Metaphors as Intermedial References 103
15. Framing a Shot: Intercode Adaptations and Ethical Remembrance of the Vietnam War 113
16. Recycling Film Genres: Transcodification of the Film Noir in the Contemporary Anglo-American and French Novel (Martin Amis, Robert Coover, Tanguy Viel) 125
17. How to be Both through Overlapping Ekphrastic Layers 135
18. Nostalgia of the Present: Pauline Boty From the Swinging Sixties to Post-Brexit UK 145
19. The Unlikeable Woman: Olive Kitteridge and the Invisibility of the Adapted Screenplay Text 153
20. Section 3 Screens and stages
21. Liturgy and Theatre at the Gates of Dis. The Divine Comedy as a Transcodification of Medieval Performance 167
22. Turandot – A Feminist Heroine Crossing Codes and Media 177
23. Sublime Voices, Tragic Identifications. On Two Opera Re-enactments in cinema 189
24. Transcodification as Hantise: Opera and Memory in Derek Jarman and Isaac Julien 197
25. Corporal Transcodification(s): Mark Morris’ Dance Adaption of Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas 205
26. A Performance Of Sound for an Immersive Theatre 219
27. Black Mirror – Bandersnatch and/as Intermedial Performativity through TV Series, Cinema and Digital Transcodification 227
28. From V to V: The Problematic Adaptation of Alan Moore & David Lloyd’s V for Vendetta 237
29. Digital Comics as Participatory Gesamtkunstwerk: Andrew Hussie’s Homestuck 247
30. Section 4 Cultural transfers
31. Dissonance, Anachrony 263
32. The Egyptian Enigma in New Media Art. Haytham Nawar’s AI Human-Machine Installations 279
33. The House of Atreus in Cyberspace: Transmediality of Classical Materials 289
34. Suspended or Suspenseful? Orientalism, Rat Torture, and Transmedial Fantasies 299
35. The Gamification of Terror: The Imaginary of Videogames from the War on Terror to the Islamic State 317
36. Transcoding Migration: On the Transcultural Aesthetics of Socially Engaged Creativity across Europe 327
37. The Same Film or Another One? Fansubbing as Resistant Transcodification Practice in the Postcinema Age 337
38. Inside of the Technology of Surveillance: Notes on Shu Lea Cheang’s 3x3x6 347
39. Japanese Space Opera and Intermediality 357
40. Author index
41. Subject index