This open access book promotes the idea that all media types are multimodal and that comparing media types, through an intermedial lens, necessarily involves analysing these multimodal traits. The collection includes a series of interconnected articles that illustrate and clarify how the concepts developed in Elleström’s influential article The Modalities of Media: A Model for Understanding Intermedial Relations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) can be used for methodical investigation and interpretation of media traits and media interrelations. The authors work with a wide range of old and new media types that are traditionally investigated through limited, media-specific concepts. The publication is a significant contribution to interdisciplinary research, advancing the frontiers of conceptual as well as practical understanding of media interrelations. This is the second of two volumes. It contains a concluding article by Elleström and seven contributions concentrated on the issue of media transformations: how media characteristics are transferred and transfigured among various media products and media types.
Author(s): Lars Elleström
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 242
City: London
Foreword: Mediations of Method
Preface
Acknowledgements
About the Book
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Part I: Media Transformation
Chapter 1: Finding Meaning in Intermedial Gaps
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Ventriloquism with No Voice
1.3 Silent Film with No Image
1.4 Opera with No Song
1.5 Speaking in Another Language
1.6 Conclusion
References
Chapter 2: Transferring Handmaids: Iconography, Adaptation, and Intermediality
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Intermediality, Iconography, and Transfer
2.3 Mediation in The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
2.4 The Handmaid: Establishing a Network of Iconography
2.5 Print-Based Movement: Illustration and Graphic Novel
2.6 Motion-Based Transfer
2.7 Transfer and Networks
References
Chapter 3: Building Bridges: The Modes of Architecture
3.1 Assembling Foundations
3.2 Setting Up the Piers, or the Modes of Architecture
3.3 Adding Girders: Embodiment and Perspective
3.4 The Deck, or Architecture’s Medial Traits
References
Chapter 4: Media Representation and Transmediation: Indexicality in Journalism Comics and Biography Comics
4.1 Introduction
4.2 A Short History of Comics as a Qualified Media Type
4.3 Media Representation and Transmediation in Journalism Comics and Biography Comics
4.3.1 Simple Media Representations
4.3.2 Complex Media Representations
4.3.3 Transmediations
4.4 Conclusion
References
Chapter 5: Towards an Intermedial Ecocriticism
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Sketching the Background
5.2.1 Three Basic Intermedial Points—And the Question of Representation
5.2.2 Intermedial Ecocriticism: A Methodological Suggestion
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
5.3 Comparative Case Study
5.3.1 A CarbonBrief Article
Step 1
Step 2
5.3.2 Charlotte Weitze’s Novel Den afskyelige (The Abominable)
Step 1
Step 2
5.3.3 Comparison of Article and Novel
Research Question 1 (Representation of Science)
Research Question 2 (Scientific Results and Everyday Experience)
5.4 Concluding Remarks
References
Chapter 6: Metalepsis in Different Media
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Metalepsis in Literature
6.3 Metalepsis in Film
6.3.1 Metalepsis Through Narrative Voice in Film
6.3.2 Metalepsis Without Narrative Voice in Film
6.4 Conclusion
References
Chapter 7: Seeing the Landscape Through Textual and Graphical Media Products
7.1 Introduction: Being in the World
7.2 Descriptions of Landscapes
7.2.1 Written Texts
7.2.2 Map Documents
7.2.3 Oral Texts
7.3 Geocommunication
7.4 References Between Maps and Texts
7.5 On the Realism of Landscapes
7.6 Maps Are Not Texts, But Neither Are Texts
7.7 Interpretative Journeys
7.8 Modelling and Media Transformations
7.9 Landscape, Space, Reality, and the Virtual
7.10 Being in a Virtual World, Experiencing Space Real and Unreal
7.11 Conclusion
References
Part II: The Model Applied
Chapter 8: Summary and Elaborations
8.1 Summary
8.2 Adaptation
8.3 Narration
8.4 Language
References
Index
