Author : Thomas Van Parys
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780240121
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (41 download)
Book Synopsis Science Fiction Across Media by : Thomas Van Parys
Download or read book Science Fiction Across Media written by Thomas Van Parys and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book belongs to a new wave of adaptation studies, interested not only in detailed comparisons between novels and their screen versions, but in intertextuality and the proliferation of textual material across multiple media platforms. Case studies comparing originals and their screen copies remain the life-blood of adaptation studies, but they are significantly augmented by analyses of the 'adaptation industry' and the commercial exploitation of copyrighted properties in franchises, remakes and spin-offs of all kinds. The familiar dyad of novel and film is joined by studies of comics, novelizations, toys, video games, theme-parks rides, remakes, reboots, extended and director s cuts, TV versions and the other numerous ways in which adaptations borrow from and relentlessly reproduce and commodify narratives and story worlds. In this way, adaptation can be seen as a key function in a 'vast narrative', which is a concept from new media studies that helps to understand how narratives are constructed across different forms of media.