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Alice in Transmedia Wonderland - Curiouser and Curiouser New Forms of a Children's Classic (Paperback)
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Alice in Transmedia Wonderland - Curiouser and Curiouser New Forms of a Children's Classic (Paperback)
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What keeps the spirit of Alice alive after all these years? And
what makes us so spontaneously turn into armchair travelers ready
to unconditionally follow a little girl on her fantastic journeys
down a rabbit hole into topsy-turvy worlds? Alice's unfailing
ability to amaze is due to her characteristic ambiguity that
entails a plethora of interpretive possibilities and hence a
rewarding adaptability to multiple mixed media forms which
stimulate senses beyond the verbal games establishing the trademark
charm of the original children's classic. Popular postmodern
post/millenial re-configurations of Victorian fantasy, in
particular late 20st century and especially early 21st century
adaptations of Lewis Carroll's Alice tales, reveal how intermedial
transitions elicit different modes of enchantment, disenchantment,
and re-enchantment which both shape and reflect contemporary
fantasists' strategies of make-believing, and circumscribe a
metafantasy commenting on limits and potentials of the fantasy
genre as well as the dys/functioning of imagination. Adventures get
curiouser and curiouser once Alice ventures into Transmedia
Wonderland, transgressing the confines of the written text towards
visual, acoustic, tactile, kinetic and digital new media regimes of
representation. Contemporary adaptations dynamically interact with
their Victorian source texts as well as one another to enhance the
immersion into an elaborate fictional universe and maximalize
audience engagement, while retelling a story that remains
recognizably the same, yet turns radically different with each new
retelling. The journey to Wonderland today signifies a
metafantasmagoric, metamedial mission urging all to interactively
explore the cultural critical and ethical stakes of our embodied
imaginative experience of making sense of nonsense.
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