Vol. 5 (2022): Translation and Transformation in Audiovisual and Digital Culture

Volume V of Digital Age in Semiotics & Communication (2022), edited by Evangelos Kourdis and Kristian Bankov, brings together ten articles on how cultural works, narratives and images are translated, remediated and transformed across media. The contributions examine intermediality as artistic experimentation and political resistance in Jean-Luc Godard’s late films, and the “cinefication” of museums, using Tate Modern’s promotion of a Picasso exhibition through trailers and social media. Others trace the transmedial afterlife of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings in films, games, music and fan culture, and analyse digital identity through the avatars of the Chinese idol show Dimension Nova. One article studies Dr. Li Wenliang’s Weibo page as a “wailing wall” of online mourning, censorship and collective memory. Further papers explore how the body and senses of the Middle Ages are reworked in TV series, films and video games, and how digital derivations of the Mona Lisa reveal the persuasion of likeness in digital images. The volume closes with three studies of cinema: the representation of maids in Greek films of the 1950s and 1960s, the film adaptation of Mauriac’s Thérèse Desqueyroux, and the colourisation of Greek classic films as intersemiotic translation.