This is a methodical study of the material and mental limits and possibilities of transferring information and media traits among dissimilar media. Elleström proposes a model for pinpointing the most vital conceptual entities and stages in intermedial transfers involving different media types such as speech, writing, music, films, and websites.

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Linnœus University, Sweden

Lars Elleström

About the author

Lars Elleström is Professor of Comparative Literature at Linnæus University, Sweden. He chairs the board of the International Society for Intermedial Studies and has written and edited several books, including Divine Madness: On Interpreting Literature, Music, and the Visual Arts Ironically (2002) and Media Borders, Multimodality and Intermediality (2010). He has also published numerous articles on intermediality, semiotics, poetry, gender and irony.

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Book Title: Media Transformation
Book Subtitle: The Transfer of Media Characteristics among Media
Authors: Lars Elleström
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137474254
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-47424-7Published: 03 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-47425-4Published: 03 October 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 104
Topics: Media and Communication, Media Studies, Industries, Semantics, Literary Theory

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Two Types of Media Transformation

The Transmedial Basis

A Model for Media Transformation

Three Analyses

Conclusion

Back Matter

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