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[Publik.ims] IMS seminar 7 april with Jamie Sherry on "Closing visual codas: Infidelities, Diversions and Radical Practices in Adaptations"

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Dear all, I hope you are having, or are about to have, a lovely easter! Next week on our IMS seminar, we will be visited by Jamie Sherry, who will give a presentation on “Closing visual codas: Infidelities, Diversions and Radical Practices in Adaptations”. Abstract This paper will partially question how the screenplay functions as a bridging tool in the ‘liminal’ phase between two media, and the ways in which this extra narrative layer conforms to postmodern storytelling techniques in which the extraneous details of production performance become critically important to the film viewer’s reception (in adaptations such as The Five Obstructions (2003) and Under the Skin (2013)). These arguments are informed by Christine Geraghty’s position that adaptations “differ from other fiction films because they emphasize rather than hide the performance that that is involved in putting a script on screen,” and that in doing so they “create a gap in which we can see the act of making fiction.” This will serve to highlight the industrial function of the adapted screenplay as adaptation performance, and consider broader notions of film practice that exert influence on the production of remediated film. This paper will argue that various practices undertaken during production form a meta-narrative of performance that infiltrate audiences’ reading of the film. This paper will also examine these multiple acts of distancing by evaluating the increasingly and accumulatively unfaithful adapted screenplays. The paper will cast its net wide to consider the functions of resolution and closures in film adaptations, considering cinematic, visual codas in place of literary resolutions. Film adaptations such as Sunrise (1927), Apocalypse Now (1979), Stalker (1979), Where the Wild Things Are (2009), We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011) and Under the Skin (2013) provide valuable discourses on the process of remediation, and the techniques used by cinema to provide resolution, closure, and continuation. Biography Jamie Sherry is Reader in English at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, working within the Centre for Adaptations, and co-organising the Association of Adaptation Studies annual conference since 2007. He is co-editor for the Journal of Screenwriting and is a steering committee member for the Screenwriting Research Network. Jamie is also a practicing screenwriter and script-editor for UK film and media production companies, including Working Title, BBC Films and Screen Yorkshire. He has published research on the industrial and theoretical processes of adaptation through production and screenwriting and will publish the monograph Screenwriting Film Adaptations: The History, Practice and Theory of the Adapted Screenplay on Palgrave Macmillan in 2022. The seminar is, as always, on Wednesday, April 7, at 10.15 – 12.00 (CEST) on zoom: https://lnu-se.zoom.us/j/940933326 Best wishes, Signe – on behalf of IMS IMS on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LNU.IMS IMS public email list: https://lists.sunet.se/listinfo/publik.ims Signe Kjaer Jensen PhD student in Comparative Literature Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) Linnæus University Department of Film and Literature 351 95 Växjö Sweden https://lnu.se/personal/signe.kjaerjensen/ signe.kjaerjensen at lnu.se<mailto:signe.kjaerjensen at lnu.se>

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[Publik.ims] Next week's IMS seminar with Gilbert Ambrazaitis on 'Audiovisual prominence perception'

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Dear all, Welcome to next week’s IMS seminar, where Gilbert Ambrazaitis will give a presentation on Audiovisual prominence perception. The seminar will be a project presentation and not a text discussion, so reading-preparation is not necessary, but if anyone do wish to read up on multimodal prosodic prominence before the seminar, Gilbert has provided two brief texts: one article (5 pages) and one longer project abstract. Abstract: Prosodic prominence (= highlighting syllables or words in spoken language) is signaled through a combination of acoustic properties. This is well established. Likewise, there is plenty of evidence suggesting that prominent words are regularly accompanied by, and temporally aligned with, rapid movements by various part of the body (e.g., hands, the head, the eyebrows). Such gestures are often assumed to be part of the multimodal make-up of prominence production. However, the question whether and how such visible cues might contribute to prominence perception has not been addressed sufficiently in previous research yet. In this talk I will review some existing evidence and present and discuss own preliminary results from audiovisual and audio-only prominence ratings of clips from Swedish television news readings, collected from 85 adult Swedish participants using a web-based interface The seminar is, as always, on Wednesday, March 24, at 10.15 – 12.00 (CET) on zoom: https://lnu-se.zoom.us/j/940933326 Best wishes, Signe – on behalf of IMS IMS on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LNU.IMS IMS public email list: https://lists.sunet.se/listinfo/publik.ims Signe Kjaer Jensen PhD student in Comparative Literature Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) Linnæus University Department of Film and Literature 351 95 Växjö Sweden https://lnu.se/personal/signe.kjaerjensen/ signe.kjaerjensen at lnu.se<mailto:signe.kjaerjensen at lnu.se>

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[Publik.ims] Nafiseh Mousavi's viva, Friday 19 March

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Dear all, We won’t have an IMS seminar this week, but we have something even better! Nafiseh Mousavi will have her digital PhD defence on Migratory self-adaptation on Friday, 19 March! Nafiseh’s defence of her thesis "The Art of Repeating Oneself. Migratory self-adaption: media choice, self-location and authorship" will take place as a public, digital event from 13.00 CET - ca. 16.00 CET. Read more about the defence and how to get access here: https://lnu.se/en/meet-linnaeus-university/current/events/2021/public-defen… You can also read Nafiseh's full thesis here: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-101334<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Furn.kb.se%2Fresolve%3Furn%3Durn…> Abbreviated abstract: This thesis studies the process and products of migratory self-adaptation: the practice of a migrant author recreating their own work in a new medium, and the baggage it brings with it. Migratory self-adaptation is developed and analyzed in this research through a comparative and processual analysis of two cases of adaptation: Persepolis, a French autobiographical graphic novel written and drawn by Marjane Satrapi, the Franco- Iranian artist and writer, later turned into an animation movie co-written and codirected by Satrapi herself; and The Patience Stone, a novel written in French by Atiq Rahimi, the Franco-Afghan author, which is adapted to a homonymous film in Dari- Persian, co-written and directed by the author. With their intercultural position, migrant authors face particular challenges of positionality, visibility, inclusion, and survival. Various strategies have been developed to address these challenges and migratory self-adaptation, as is argued and demonstrated throughout this research, which brings several of these strategies together. The research argues that the authorship constructed through migratory self-adaptation is multi-directional, transmedial, and transcultural. This multi-dimensional authorship is analyzed through the extended case studies, which include contexts as well as texts and processes alongside the products. (...) The study adopts an interdisciplinary approach in theory and methodology and develops a transmedial understanding of migrant authorship and a multi-layered understanding of adaptation. In doing so, it joins the disciplines of intermediality and adaptation studies with literature and cinema of migration and also integrates theories of authorship, translation, border, and memory. By discussing various faces of adaptation in the migratory situation and the interconnection between different cultural mechanisms, this research addresses some of the fundamental questions regarding authoring in migration, including but not restricted to translational communication, cultural difference, dynamics of inclusion and exclusion, and survival. Best wishes and see you on Friday! /Signe – on behalf of IMS IMS on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LNU.IMS IMS public email list: https://lists.sunet.se/listinfo/publik.ims Signe Kjaer Jensen PhD student in Comparative Literature Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) Linnæus University Department of Film and Literature 351 95 Växjö Sweden https://lnu.se/personal/signe.kjaerjensen/ signe.kjaerjensen at lnu.se<mailto:signe.kjaerjensen at lnu.se>

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[Publik.ims] Next IMS seminar with Ari Nykvist on 'Transmedia journalism'

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Dear all, Welcome to next week’s IMS seminar, where we will have a visit from Ari Nykvist, from the department of media and journalism, who will present on ”Transmedia journalism for better storytelling in the digital age”. If Ari Nykvist sends an abstract for the seminar, I will post it to the webpage here: https://lnu.se/en/meet-linnaeus-university/current/events/2021/ims-seminar-… The seminar is, as always, on Wednesday, March 3, at 10.15 – 12.00 (CET) on zoom: https://lnu-se.zoom.us/j/940933326 Best wishes, Signe – on behalf of IMS IMS on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LNU.IMS IMS public email list: https://lists.sunet.se/listinfo/publik.ims Signe Kjaer Jensen PhD student in Comparative Literature Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) Linnæus University Department of Film and Literature 351 95 Växjö Sweden https://lnu.se/personal/signe.kjaerjensen/ signe.kjaerjensen at lnu.se<mailto:signe.kjaerjensen at lnu.se>

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