Don Quixote , intermediality and remix

Translational shifts in the semiotics of culture

Bibliographic Data

ID12601942
AuthorsNicola Maria Dusi (0000-0001-9547-0184, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume18
Issue1
Pages119-134
Publication date2014-05-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1367-8779 • E-ISSN: 1460-356X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1367877914528122
OpenAlexW2156926694
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited27

In Yuri Lotman’s terms intertextual relationships as active dialogues among texts and cultures should be the starting point for an analysis of the concepts of intermediality, cross-mediality and transmediality. This article considers adaptations and remakes as intermedial processes and remix practices as transmedial ones. The article demonstrates how the processes of transposition, remake and remix may sometimes be only partial, or in other instances they may shift towards entirely different textual systems/levels. At metasemiotic levels, the strategies that build the narrative worlds may either conceal or emphasize the interdependent relations between source and target texts, as well as between their cultural semiotic systems and their emergent ‘metatexts’ of self-description. In the second half of the article brief semiotic analyses will be presented in order to investigate mechanisms of the intermedial and transmedial networks that start from a literary text, Don Quixote by Cervantes, and continue to cinema and new digital media

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Intertextuality · Literature · Movie theater · Narrative · Semiotics · Semiotics of culture · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Philosophy · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · Translation Studies and Practices