Niklas Salmose is an Associate Professor of English at Linnaeus University, Sweden. He has published and presented internationally on nostalgia, Nordic noir, Hitchcock, cinematic style in fiction, modernism, the Anthropocene and Hollywood, animal horror, intermediality and sensorial aesthetics in fiction. He co-edited an issue on the Anthropocene for the journal Ekfrase 2016, a special issue on contemporary nostalgia for the journal Humanities 2018 and a book on experimental Swedish filmmaker Eric M. Nilsson 2019. At Linnaeus University, he is a member of the Linnaeus University Center of Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS).

Lars Elleström is Professor of Comparative Literature at Linnaeus University, Sweden. He presides over the Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies and chairs the board of the International Society for Intermedial Studies. Elleström has written and edited several books, including Divine Madness: On Interpreting Literature, Music, and the Visual Arts Ironically (2002), Media Borders, Multimodality and Intermediality (2010), Media Transformation: The Transfer of Media Characteristics among Media (2014), and Transmedial Narration: Narratives and Stories in Different Media (2019). He has also published numerous articles on poetry, intermediality, semiotics, gender, irony, and communication.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures

Contributors

Foreword

Niklas Salmose & Lars Elleström

1. Transmediation: Some Theoretical Considerations






Lars Elleström





PART 1: Transmedia Storytelling






2. Transmedia Storytelling and its Discourses






Marie-Laure Ryan




3. Peter Greenaway's The Tulse Luper Suitcases Project (2003¿2005):






Transmedia Storytelling as Self-Reference Multimediality





Fátima Chinita




4. The Gamification of Cinema and the Cinematization of Games






Doru Pop





PART 2: Ekphrasis




5. The "Unflinching Gaze"-The Representation of Suffering in Tony Harrison's Film Poetry






Agata Handley




6. Leaving the White Cube of Ekphrasis: Gordon Matta-Clark's Conical Intersection






Heidrun Führer & Anna Kraus




7. Architectural Ekphraseis: Unveiling a Brazilian Wall-Less House in Contemporary Fiction






Miriam Vieira





PART 3 : Transmediation: A Broad Media Perspective




8. The Logic of Cutting Yourself: From Senseless Chaos to Signifying Order
   Hans Sternudd





9. Three Ways of Transmediating a Theme Park: Spatialising Storyworlds in Epic Mickey, the Monkey Island Series and Theme Park Management Simulators






Péter Kristóf Makai




10. Intersemiotic Translation as a Creative Thinking Tool - From Gertrude Stein to Dance






João Queiroz & Pedro Atã





PART 4: Transmediating the Anthropocene




11. "We're Doomed -Now What?": Transmediating Temporality into Narrative Forms






Jørgen Bruhn




12. Transmediations of the Anthropocene: From Factual Media to Poetry






Emma Tornborg




13. Three Transmediations of the Anthropocene: An Intermedial Ecocritical Reading of Facts, Sci-Fi, PopSci, and Eco-Horror
    Niklas Salmose