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New Approaches to Transcodification

Literature, Arts, and Media
  • Edited by: Massimo Fusillo , Doriana Legge , Mirko Lino , Mattia Petricola and Gianluigi Rossini
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2025
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Transcodification: Arts, Languages and Media

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This collection aims to renew our perspective on adaptation and intermedial processes by thinking of them in terms of codes rather than media. As a result, the notion of transcodification emerges as a crucial tool in order to study the circulation of semiotic and aesthetic resources across disciplines, knowledge systems, and cultures. Defined as the transfer of meaning-making potential from one semiotic domain to another, transcodification both includes and transcends intermediality, thus dramatically expanding the scope and research potential of adaptation and intermedial studies.
The essays collected here apply this framework to an incredibly wide variety of objects and issues, from the relationship between art and historiography to the visual culture of finance, from contemporary approaches to ekphrasis to the hidden labor of screenwriters, from modern surveillance to digital comics, from fansubbing to the reception of the classical world in the digital age, from medieval theater to the role of videogames in the “war on terror”.
By fostering dialogue between radically different disciplines, the book offers a unique approach to the study of semiotic interrelations across the most diverse aspects of human culture.

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Massimo Fusillo, SNS Pisa; Doriana Legge and Mirko Lino, Univ. Aquila; Mattia Petricola, Univ. Padova; Gianluigi Rossini, Univ. Teramo

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Frontmatter

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Table of Contents

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On Transcodification: A Proposal for a Code-Oriented Approach to Adaptation and Intermediality

Mattia Petricola
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Section 1 Theories
“Various Are the Incidents in One Man’s Life Which Cannot Be Reduced to Unity”. First Aristotelian Lesson on Transcodification

Raffaele Chiarulli
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Transcodifications of the Real: ‘Presence,’ Nature, and Artifice in Historiography and Art

Marina Grishakova
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Cinema’s Affective and Metaleptic Intermediality

Ágnes Pethő
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Telling Stories with Objects: Narrative and Materiality

Marie-Laure Ryan
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The Impossible Transcodification. What if Performance Does Not Deal with the Mediascape?

Dario Tomasello
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A Poetics of App Fiction

Bartosz Lutostański
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Section 2 Words and Images
The Survival of Painting: Cinematic and Literary Tableaux Vivants

Márcia Arbex-Enrico
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Ekphrastic Transformations of the Nude in Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In and Nuala Ní Chonchúir’s Nude

Silvia Kurr
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Musical Metaphors as Intermedial References

Yael Balaban and Naphtali Wagner
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Framing a Shot: Intercode Adaptations and Ethical Remembrance of the Vietnam War

Mattia Arioli
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Recycling Film Genres: Transcodification of the Film Noir in the Contemporary Anglo-American and French Novel (Martin Amis, Robert Coover, Tanguy Viel)

Laurence Riu-Comut
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How to be Both through Overlapping Ekphrastic Layers

Miriam de Paiva Vieira and Joicy Silva Ferreira
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Nostalgia of the Present: Pauline Boty From the Swinging Sixties to Post-Brexit UK

Silvia Albertazzi
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The Unlikeable Woman: Olive Kitteridge and the Invisibility of the Adapted Screenplay Text

Gianlugi Rossini
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Section 3 Screens and stages
Liturgy and Theatre at the Gates of Dis. The Divine Comedy as a Transcodification of Medieval Performance

Paolo Pizzimento
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Turandot – A Feminist Heroine Crossing Codes and Media

Sieghild Bogumil-Notz
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Sublime Voices, Tragic Identifications. On Two Opera Re-enactments in cinema

Massimo Fusillo
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Transcodification as Hantise: Opera and Memory in Derek Jarman and Isaac Julien

Serena Guarracino
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Corporal Transcodification(s): Mark Morris’ Dance Adaption of Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas

Anna Chiara Corradino
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A Performance Of Sound for an Immersive Theatre

Doriana Legge
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Black Mirror – Bandersnatch and/as Intermedial Performativity through TV Series, Cinema and Digital Transcodification

Giovanna Santaera
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From V to V: The Problematic Adaptation of Alan Moore & David Lloyd’s V for Vendetta

Umberto Rossi
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Digital Comics as Participatory Gesamtkunstwerk: Andrew Hussie’s Homestuck

Giorgio Busi Rizzi
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Section 4 Cultural transfers
Dissonance, Anachrony

Sean Cubitt
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The Egyptian Enigma in New Media Art. Haytham Nawar’s AI Human-Machine Installations

Marie Thérèse Abdelmessih
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The House of Atreus in Cyberspace: Transmediality of Classical Materials

Kathleen L. Komar
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Suspended or Suspenseful? Orientalism, Rat Torture, and Transmedial Fantasies

Yorimitsu Hashimoto
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The Gamification of Terror: The Imaginary of Videogames from the War on Terror to the Islamic State

Giuseppe Previtali
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Transcoding Migration: On the Transcultural Aesthetics of Socially Engaged Creativity across Europe

Lora Markova
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The Same Film or Another One? Fansubbing as Resistant Transcodification Practice in the Postcinema Age

Mario Tirino
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Inside of the Technology of Surveillance: Notes on Shu Lea Cheang’s 3x3x6

Chiara Scarlato
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Japanese Space Opera and Intermediality

Francesco-Alessio Ursini
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eBook published on:
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9783111636122
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9783111624051
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Front matter:
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111636122
eBook ISBN: 9783111636122
Hardcover ISBN: 9783111624051
Keywords for this book
Adaption; intermediality; semiotics; transcodification
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Scholars and students of Classical Studies, Greek Language and Literature, Linguistics, Cultural Studies and Media Theory
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