New Approaches to Transcodification
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Edited by:
Massimo Fusillo
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
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
1 - Section 1 Theories
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“Various Are the Incidents in One Man’s Life Which Cannot Be Reduced to Unity”. First Aristotelian Lesson on Transcodification
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Transcodifications of the Real: ‘Presence,’ Nature, and Artifice in Historiography and Art
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Cinema’s Affective and Metaleptic Intermediality
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Telling Stories with Objects: Narrative and Materiality
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The Impossible Transcodification. What if Performance Does Not Deal with the Mediascape?
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A Poetics of App Fiction
71 - Section 2 Words and Images
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The Survival of Painting: Cinematic and Literary Tableaux Vivants
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Ekphrastic Transformations of the Nude in Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In and Nuala Ní Chonchúir’s Nude
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Musical Metaphors as Intermedial References
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Framing a Shot: Intercode Adaptations and Ethical Remembrance of the Vietnam War
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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)
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How to be Both through Overlapping Ekphrastic Layers
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Nostalgia of the Present: Pauline Boty From the Swinging Sixties to Post-Brexit UK
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The Unlikeable Woman: Olive Kitteridge and the Invisibility of the Adapted Screenplay Text
153 - Section 3 Screens and stages
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Liturgy and Theatre at the Gates of Dis. The Divine Comedy as a Transcodification of Medieval Performance
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Turandot – A Feminist Heroine Crossing Codes and Media
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Sublime Voices, Tragic Identifications. On Two Opera Re-enactments in cinema
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Transcodification as Hantise: Opera and Memory in Derek Jarman and Isaac Julien
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Corporal Transcodification(s): Mark Morris’ Dance Adaption of Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas
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A Performance Of Sound for an Immersive Theatre
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Black Mirror – Bandersnatch and/as Intermedial Performativity through TV Series, Cinema and Digital Transcodification
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From V to V: The Problematic Adaptation of Alan Moore & David Lloyd’s V for Vendetta
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Digital Comics as Participatory Gesamtkunstwerk: Andrew Hussie’s Homestuck
247 - Section 4 Cultural transfers
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Dissonance, Anachrony
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The Egyptian Enigma in New Media Art. Haytham Nawar’s AI Human-Machine Installations
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The House of Atreus in Cyberspace: Transmediality of Classical Materials
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Suspended or Suspenseful? Orientalism, Rat Torture, and Transmedial Fantasies
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The Gamification of Terror: The Imaginary of Videogames from the War on Terror to the Islamic State
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Transcoding Migration: On the Transcultural Aesthetics of Socially Engaged Creativity across Europe
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The Same Film or Another One? Fansubbing as Resistant Transcodification Practice in the Postcinema Age
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Inside of the Technology of Surveillance: Notes on Shu Lea Cheang’s 3x3x6
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Japanese Space Opera and Intermediality
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Contributors’ bios
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Author index
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Subject index
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