Transmediations

Niklas Salmose is an Associate Professor of English at Linnaeus University, Sweden. He has published and presented internationally on nostalgia, Nordic noir, Hitchcock, cinematic style in fiction, modernism, the Anthropocene and Hollywood, animal horror, intermediality and sensorial aesthetics in fiction. He co-edited an issue on the Anthropocene for the journal Ekfrase 2016, a special issue on contemporary nostalgia for the journal Humanities 2018 and a book on experimental Swedish filmmaker Eric M. Nilsson 2019. At Linnaeus University, he is a member of the Linnaeus University Center of Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS). Lars Elleström is Professor of Comparative Literature at Linnaeus University, Sweden. He presides over the Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies and chairs the board of the International Society for Intermedial Studies. Elleström has written and edited several books, including Divine Madness: On Interpreting Literature, Music, and the Visual Arts Ironically (2002), Media Borders, Multimodality and Intermediality (2010), Media Transformation: The Transfer of Media Characteristics among Media (2014), and Transmedial Narration: Narratives and Stories in Different Media (2019). He has also published numerous articles on poetry, intermediality, semiotics, gender, irony, and communication.

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