The Construction of Cultural Memory in Cross-media Narrative — The Adaptation of the Text of "Going North" and the Intertextuality of Film and Television

Journal: Arts Studies and Criticism DOI: 10.32629/asc.v6i5.4615

Xiaofei Liu

School of Literature, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, Jiangsu, China

Abstract

Going North, a drama adapted from Mao Dun's prize-winning work, shows the reconstruction of cultural memory in the process of text and film adaptation, especially in the production of canal memory space. Through the theory of cross-media narrative, combined with the related research of cultural memory and space production, this paper analyzes how the text is adapted and reshaped in the film and television media, and explores the similarities and differences of different media in the expression of cultural memory. Film adaptation is not only the visual presentation of the original text, but also the reproduction of cultural memory, which endows historical narrative with new communication paths and social significance, and reflects the important role of cross-media narrative in cultural inheritance.

Keywords

cultural memory, spatial construction, intertextuality, cross-media narrative, film adaptation

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