Transmedial Transduction in the Spider-Verse

Authors

  • José Agustín Donoso Munita Author Universidad de los Andes
  • Mariano Alejandro Penafiel Durruty Author Universidad de los Andes

Keywords:

Adaptation, cultural proximity, retroactive linkage, Spider-Man, transduction, transmedia, multiverse, transcultural

Abstract

Since Spider-Man was born from the hands of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in 1962, thousands of versions of the arachnid have been created. Among them, two call the attention of this investigation: Spider-Man India and nSupaidaman (1978), from Japan. By using a comparative study of the hero’s journey between these two and the original Spider-Man, this study attempts to understand transduction, made to generate cultural proximity with the countries where the adaptations were made. This study also seeks to understand how all the versions of the arachnid were united to generate onemintegrated and coherent universe that has multiple worlds, by creating a retroactive linkage, which was launched by Slott et al. in 2014. By looking into the rules set by fiction itself, this investigation aims to see if the two Spider-Men studied are just adaptations of the original one, or if they are part of a Transmedial Universe.

doi: 10.5294/pacla.2017.20.3.8

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Author Biographies

José Agustín Donoso Munita, Universidad de los Andes

Periodista, Licenciado en Comunicación Social y Licenciado en Filosofía. Desde 2013 me desempeño como profesor de Narrativa Audiovisual, Narrativa Multimedia, Proyecto Multimedia, Nuevas Tendencias en Documental y Ficción Literaria y Cinematográfica en la Universidad de los Andes. Cuento con experiencia en el mundo profesional, donde se destaca mi participación como guionista en la serie infantil Go Pop! Transmitida por el canal Mega de difusión nacional en Chile, además de la participación en diversos documentales y productoras. Mi reel se puede visitar en: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=630kaWSScmA&list=UUgLUE7rlNACRm8wPLcubzyg

Mariano Alejandro Penafiel Durruty, Universidad de los Andes

Periodista, Licenciado en Comunicación Social, con experiencia profesional en el Noticiario del canal de Televisión Nacional. En el ámbito académico, participó en la presente invesxtigación como parte de su Tesis de Licenciatura.

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Published

2017-06-08

How to Cite

Donoso Munita, J. A., & Penafiel Durruty, M. A. (2017). Transmedial Transduction in the Spider-Verse. Palabra Clave, 20(3). Retrieved from https://palabraclave.unisabana.edu.co/index.php/palabraclave/article/view/6989

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 3 (2017): Cultural Transduction

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