The Art of Adaptation in Film and Video Games

• Other Authors: Thomas, Christian (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Film, TV & radio; Mulan; adaptation; Disney; Orientalism; cultural authenticity; cultural palimpsest; Chinese cinema; science fiction; The Wandering Earth; patricide; patrilineality; nationalism; media; mass culture; film; digital games; film adaptation; experimental game design; game design process documentation; T.S. Eliot; Prufrock; remediation; comic strip; animated film; split screen; video poem; YouTube dramatic monologue; photographic montage; Contagion; propaganda; pandemic; premediation; Steven Soderbergh; Scott Z. Burns; transit; migrants; empathy; liminal spaces; Bildungsroman; modernity; videogames; Shakespeare; Tale of a Forest; biodiversity; documentary; ecocriticism; environmental narrative; forest; nature photography; nostalgia; species; video games; game studies; Star Wars; George Lucas; game reviews; criticism; thematic analysis; Japanese video games; game localization; cultural adaptation; localization approaches; localization strategies; domestication; foreignization; reception; trauma; origin; psychoanalysis; repetition; impossibility; loss; representation; extremity; writing; image; failure; memoir; missed experience; creative writing studies; screenwriting; video game narrative design; interactive writing; horror film; horror video games; survival horror; character development; sci-fi; thriller; genre; tropes; methodology; n/a
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This Special Issue of Arts explores the art and practice of adaptation in several different mediums with a focus on film and video games. The topics covered include experimental game design, narrative design, film and trauma, games adapted from literature, video game cinema, film and the pandemic, f...