How do films tell their stories? How have filmmakers used novels, short stories, poetry, comics, and video games to create new stories for cinema? And how has transmedia storytelling changed our experience of storyworlds?
In this module we study the ways in which filmmakers have recycled, queered, updated, and given new life to canonical and popular literatures, to graphic novels and comics, and to movie originals. We look at different types of adaptation, such as free adaptations and intermedial borrowings, and we analyse what is involved in the transposition of stories from one medium into another.
We also explore the differences between remakes and reboots, and the differences between adaptations which retell the “same” story again (and again) and transmedia storytelling which arguably invents prequels, sequels and spin-offs out of a desire of never wanting a particular story to end, thus satisfying our modern “novelistic” taste for seriality.
We study a range of works from movie
classics such as Nosferatu (1922, based on Bram Stoker's novel Dracula), to the transmedia franchise Avengers: Endgame
(2019).
Module Supervisor: Prof. Karin Littau
- Module Supervisor: Karin Littau