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This article explores the relationship between transmedia narratives, translation, and adaptation, and exposes why one can be lead to believe that these disciplines have very little in common. It first gives a definition of complexity and transmedia narratives, and explains the difference between transmedia, crossmedia, and multimedia. It then describes the types of transmedia projects proposed by Christy Dena (2011, n.p.) and illustrates them with the examples of two cult series' narrative universes, that is, Twin Peaks and Skam. Transmedia stories, which spread on multiple platforms and involve audience participation, are considered by transmedia theorists to be part of story worlds (story universes, or “storyverses”). Yet, most of these narratives can be considered as adaptations, or as multimodal, intersemiotic translations. Despite the evident relationship between translation, adaptation and transmedia, adaptation is reduced to a mere media transfer, and translation is mostly referred to as an interlinguistic operation in recent academic conversations around transmedia and participatory culture. This article examines how the emergence of transmedia narratives illuminates the fact that adaptation and translation must step into the study of contemporary transmedial landscape, and how transmedia, translation and adaptation could gain from it.
Keywords: transmedia storytelling, translation, adaptation, complexity, trans-disciplinarity, narration transmédia, traduction, adaptation, complexité, trans-disciplinarité
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Translating and translation are transformed with Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Yesterday, translation was invisible, denied—as a need, as a process, as a profession, and as a discipline. Within three decades, a new work environment shakes up the translators' world. New types of translators emerge. The balance between supply and demand is changing. However, we still need adequate tools and methods to investigate the new hierarchy which has become established between translators, between different kinds of job markets.
Keywords: dénis de traduction, tournant économique en traductologie, traducteurs amateurs, traduction et journalisme, traduction participative, denials in translation, economic turn in translation studies, volunteer translators, translation and journalism, collective translation
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This article investigates music−dance (and design) interplay and balletic challenges in Daphnis et Chloé, focusing upon the Ravel−Ashton−Craxton production for The Royal Ballet (1951, revived in 2004), in comparison with the Ravel−Fokine−Bakst original of 1912. Sources drawn upon include accessible choreographic materials of Frederick Ashton (1904−88), held at the Royal Opera House Archives in London, as well as first-hand correspondence with the designer John Craxton (1922−2009). In order to explore the main music−dance relationships and emergent meanings, the study engages with multimedia ideas founded upon “consonance” and “dissonance” (Albright 2000), supported by music analytical (Cook 2001; 1998) and conceptual blending approaches (Fauconnier and Turner 2002). Particular moments from the ballet are selected for interpretation and, moving beyond rather over-simplified oppositions of unity versus independence or consonance versus dissonance, a case is made for complexes, transformation, and plurality.
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In 1982, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five's song “The Message” radically changed rap music, in both form and content. It is the starting point for the first great fracture in hip-hop's history. This study traces the evolution that led to this transformation, and the immediate impact it had on artists such as Run-DMC, Rakim, and KRS-ONE, by focusing on the texts and the master of ceremonies (MCs) that perform them. Additionally, the study defines the transition from spoken word poetry that is specifically intended to be performed to written poetry as the result of a reflection on both the form and the content it transmits. From the first party organized by Kool Herc to the single “It's Like That” by Run-DMC, the different phases leading from the Old School to the New School are exposed, with an emphasis on the big movements and tendencies. Special attention is also given to the relationship between the MC and the disc-jockey, since this seems to be the main cause leading to the transformations, while being the source of the conflict that will lead to a fracture in 1985. Even though the historical range of the studied corpus seems narrow, the period between 1973 and 1985 is a source of many struggles and questionings that provide insight into the current state of hip-hop, and maybe, of the music scene at large.
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It is worthy to note that the boom in the French-language Algerian detective novel, Yasmina Khadra being the best representative thereof, occurred in the 90's, in a country beset by unprecedented violence including attacks the civilian population is hard hit with. In this context, the city of Algiers, its streets, monuments, neighborhoods both rich and poor that create the setting of the majority of these novels, emerges as the ultimate metaphor for the death throes of a people and a history. Death figures, be they individual or collective, haunt the city whose bloodied new map they sketch.
Keywords: violence, roman, Algérie, violence, novel, Algeria
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Carole Pateman demonstrated, in her book The Sexual Contract (1988), how the Enlightenment's social contract was established on female subordination by the marriage contract, repressed bedrock of the social contract. The author aims to draw consequences on a philosophical perspective about the concepts of rational subjectivity and autonomous reason; and she seeks to understand the systematic failure of modern philosophy to produce an actual autonomy. And thus, she aims to figure out how modern philosophy created an arbitrary category, the « women », unspoken of modern rationality – and how to resist against it.
Keywords: subjectivité, Judith Butler, politique, modernité, lumières
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The model often relayed in the mainstream literature about Hans Zimmer, highlighting the masculinity and epic character of Zimmer's music, the massive and powerful sound of his scores, and the omnipresence of a marked rhythmic pulsation tends to neglect an important part of Zimmer's approach to film scoring, and proves to be inadequate for analyzing the composer's most recent scores that do not correspond to this schema. This is the case, in particular, of Interstellar, which soundtrack largely exceeds this predefined general framework.I show how the treatment of the music places the human at the heart of the film, and in what ways Zimmer focuses his score on the relationship between Cooper and his daughter Murph. From the example of this film, my study also offers another approach of the composer's aesthetics, which is complementary to the dominant model, inviting to rethink Zimmer's filmography – including its epic side – under a rich and open angle.
Keywords: Interstellar, Hans Zimmer, Christopher Nolan, bande-son, musique de film, effets sonores, immersion, mixage, Interstellar, Hans Zimmer, Christopher Nolan, soundtrack, film music, sound effects, immersion, mixing
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