Q18: Discuss seriality, cycles, remakes and/or spin-offs as examples of adaptations. Provide examples of works that illustrate those cases.

Question 1

What are multiplicity and textual pluralities?

Answer 1

• the reuse of existing materials/themes/images/conventions allowing for continuing textual production
• multiplicities insist that no texts have firm limits
• multiplicities: adaprations, sequels, prequels, remakes, reboots, series, spin-offs, cycles)
• seriality gives us multiplicity and textual pluralities

Question 2

What is seriality?

Answer 2

• repetition of familiar formulas (genre is a formula) but with a difference
• an expansion and reproduction of the “original” content, since the original is “sufficiently insufficient” (i/e/ we can always add something to it) -> it’s always open to extention

Question 3

How are seriality and adaptation connected?

Answer 3

• both are a part of the intertextual network

- seriality can be understood as a form of adaptation

Question 4

What is volitalization?

Answer 4

• the old texts existing in the new variations (but still visible underneath)

Question 5

Give examples of seriality.

Answer 5

seriality: constant remake of the same story
- MCU: based on comics, every possible adaptation
- the vampire diaries