{"id":1969,"date":"2020-02-26T15:29:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T15:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/build.centerforemdd.com\/?page_id=1969"},"modified":"2024-09-05T19:22:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T19:22:39","slug":"elise-lockwood","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/emdd.bsu.edu\/index.php\/research\/elise-lockwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Transmedia Adaptations of Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAdapting a classic work of literature<\/strong> into a transmedia story happened for the first time in 2013 with The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. Since then, more than 70 other transmedia adaptations have been created, with more currently in development. They adapt classic literature in the public domain such as Jane Eyre, Little Women, or The Scarlet Pimpernel to an interactive, multi-platform experience. Although transmedia adaptations of text are centered around a webseries as the main form of conveying the narrative, they take advantage of other platforms, such as Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram or websites to tell parts of the story and give audiences a chance to talk to the characters or even participate in the narrative. It is important to note that while some of these adaptations are produced by small groups of independent creators, others are funded by media and entertainment companies, such as KindaTV and New Zealand On Air. This signals that the transmedia adaptations are moving out of the realm of Internet idiosyncrasy and into the world of mainstream media consumption.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\"At its core, the research is targeted at examining the difference in adapting a text to a transmedia story versus adapting a text to a film.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Transmedia literary adaptations use a specific form of transmedia storytelling \u2013 distributed narrative \u2013 to adapt classic works. Instead of using transmedia storytelling to give the audience many different narratives that all take place in the same storyworld, works with a distributed narrative tell one linear narrative across multiple platforms. In the case of transmedia literary adaptations, this narrative is adapted from a novel or play.<\/p>

Narrative theorist Marie-Laure Ryan argues, \u201cThe only two media between which people will easily switch are novels and movies.\u201d The majority of adaptation theories agree with this. However, the prevalence and popularity of transmedia literary adaptations might prove this to be incorrect. By finding underlying patterns and frameworks in both the process of creating the adaptation and in the product itself, it might be possible to discover a new paradigm for both adaptation and transmedia storytelling that uncovers exactly why this particular form of storytelling is so effective.<\/p>

This project will target three guiding questions. aimed at examining the relationship of the transmedia adaptation to its source.<\/p>