Remaking as a Practice: Some Problems of Transmediality

In our contemporary media-scape, digital media offer to us new remaking and reworking opportunities, sometime even as a simple and ludic practice of consumption and re-appropriation of texts. Any film considered as a text already contains discursive strategy that will limit its interpretation (Eco 1990). But as Bazin (1952) said a remake could be useful to multiply the sense of the source text. In an æsthetic of repetition the remake becomes the "typical mutant object of the post-modern era". Remaking seems therefore to feature like an intertextual, interpretative and transforming strategy, or better a translating and transmedial strategy that, to greater or lesser degrees, can construct and maintain explicit ties with a source text using it as a storehouse or archive of structural invariants, levels of the expression and of content.