A Critical Companion to Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere"Fidelity and Innovation: Adaptation, Transmediality, and the Neverwhere Megatext
A Critical Companion to Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere": Fidelity and Innovation: Adaptation,...
Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew
2022-06-01 00:00:00
[Neverwhere presents a very interesting case study in transmediality since it started off as a television series; it was expanded into a novel that was then lightly adapted for American readers and then subsequently revised again by Gaiman in the “author’s preferred edition”; it has been published as a comic book series as well as issued in an illustrated edition; and it has also been adapted as a radio play. These different forms first of all let us consider the process of adaptation, both in terms of the elements of story that are transportable and the different qualities or affordances of different media; this then lets us think about how the different versions of the same story combine into something we might call the Neverwhere “megatext.” The notion of megatext, appropriated from science fiction studies, then lets us explore how all the different versions of a work participate together in creating the meaning of that work.]
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A Critical Companion to Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere"Fidelity and Innovation: Adaptation, Transmediality, and the Neverwhere Megatext
[Neverwhere presents a very interesting case study in transmediality since it started off as a television series; it was expanded into a novel that was then lightly adapted for American readers and then subsequently revised again by Gaiman in the “author’s preferred edition”; it has been published as a comic book series as well as issued in an illustrated edition; and it has also been adapted as a radio play. These different forms first of all let us consider the process of adaptation, both in terms of the elements of story that are transportable and the different qualities or affordances of different media; this then lets us think about how the different versions of the same story combine into something we might call the Neverwhere “megatext.” The notion of megatext, appropriated from science fiction studies, then lets us explore how all the different versions of a work participate together in creating the meaning of that work.]
Published: Jun 1, 2022
Keywords: Adaptation; Comics; Fidelity; Megatext; Neil Gaiman; Neverwhere; Transmediality
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