From book to stage to screen: semiotic transformations of Gothic horror genre conventions

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3. How is the weather realised in the novel?

4. What is the implications of the multimodal recontextualisation of social practices and genres?

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Tan this paper adopts a multimodal social semiotic approach to explore the resemiotisations involved in transforming a novel into stage and screen productions.

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In this respect, further investigation is required in order to assess the nature and impact of the evolving semiotic possibilities which have become available through digital technology ( for example ) and the actual multimodal semiotic choices which are made.

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The physical environment and the weather are realised linguistically as circumstances, attributes in relational processes, and pre-modifiers and the main noun in noun groups and phrases.

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The implications extend well beyond performance studies, because the multimodal recontextualisation of social practices and genres forms the underlying basis of human socio-cultural life.

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The tension is created in part by the unfolding narrative, and the alternatingly haunting and jarring background music, although the effect here is perhaps less to scare the viewer, but rather to provide an insight into Arthur’s increasingly perturbed state of mind as the story unfolds.

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In terms of its generic structure The Woman in Black is typical of Gothic horror,which varies from the prototypical narrative structure of orientation, complication and resolution (see Eggins 2004, 250–253; 348–349).

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plays are experienced collectively, and theatre audiences are cued to form particular interpretations, for example, through the manipulation of lighting, sound, props, and the characters’ movement, tone of voice, and kinetic expressions.

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This paper adopts a multimodal social semiotic approach to exploring the resemiotisations involved in transforming a novel into stage and screen productions.

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To handle the complexity of such analyses, the software tool MultimodalAnalysis Video1, which is specifically designed to explore semiotic interactions in dynamic media (e.g. O’Halloran, Tan, and E 2015a, 2105b; Tan, Smith, and O’Halloran 2015), was used for the analysis of the (video-recorded) theatrical performance and the film, discussed in the following section.

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The analysis has highlighted how the novel creates its overall and its localeffects from choices from systems in language, register, genre, and from being situatedintertextually in the broader cultural context of Gothic horror and nineteenth century literature.

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The analysis illustrated in Figure 1b shows, for example, how tension is created in a break in the narrative by thehaunting background music, which steadily rises in volume, while the audience’s gaze is directed to the centre of the darkened stage where a beam of diffused lighting tentatively picks out the shadowy form of a veiled woman lurking amidst the imaginary graves.

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The metafunctionally-based systems of meaning are represented as systemnetworks with a series of options which describe the meaning potential of semiotic resources.

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in the next shot, the camera zooms in on Arthur as he turns and tosses in his sleep, accompanied by a haunting, drone-like sound, which increases in volume as Arthur wakes up, bathed in sweat, holding the toy soldier in his hand.

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The nursery door (1989 television film) (Notation: Sound waves representing bumping noises [1]; the nursery door viewed from the protagonist’s perspective [2]; sound waves representing slow, haunting background music [3])

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Prior to Arthur’s encounter with the Woman in Black, the weather was “all […] bright and clear, and there was a thin sun overall” (66).

From book to stage to screen: semiotic transformations of Gothic horror genre conventions

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