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Convergence and the Beast: A Canonical Crossover Affair

In the digital age it has become almost impossible to view children’s texts outside the context of the new media. This study will focus on three works of children's fiction, The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1901/1902) by Beatrix Potter, Where the Wild Things Are (1963) by Maurice Sendak and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2001) by Newt Scamander / J. K. Rowling, and their respective adaptations, Peter Rabbit (2018 ; dir. Will Gluck), Where the Wild Things Are (2009 ; dir. Spike Jonze), and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016 ; dir. David Yates). The research will draw on contemporary theories of adaptation and the media, particularly the theory of ‘convergence’ and its impact on meaning-making in the production and reception of literary texts. It will take into account the cross-media and transmedia approach to analysing children’s texts, as well as the crossover effect of adapting children’s books into films. Particular attention will be paid to the adaptation of still into moving imagery and its shifts in focalisation, providing evidence that the new media have made children’s books accessible to a variety of audiences. Such examples display the contemporary complexity of children’s storytelling and culture within and beyond the canon. Owing to the developments in digital media and technologies which enable the realistic depiction of complex visual and fantastic elements that are characteristic of children’s texts, in the new millennium children’s literature has indeed become “everyone’s business”.

adaptation, picturebooks, convergence, crossover, transmedia storytelling

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