Extension du champ télécinématographique de la science-fiction. The Mandalorian (Disney+) by Hannedouche Cédric

“…Going beyond the expected constraints of a monomedia seriality largely based on an expected return of the characters or the variation of a plot from the cinematographic pilot, the Disney + series are rooted in shared universes and therefore transfictional (Saint-Gelais, 2011) much broader by bringing together narrative information given on other media (video games, animation, comics, etc.) that they absorb and claim. The Mandalorian (2020) and WandaVision (2021) are no longer reduced to domestic exploitations of commercial success but as the exploration of intrigue more or less on the sidelines of an initial canon. …”
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A reconstrução d’O cortiço: estratégias de adaptação do romance de Aluísio Azevedo para um jogo de tabuleiro by Saulo Gomes Thimoteo

“…Las formas de interacción con las narrativas literarias son muy variadas: libros, películas, cómics y juegos etc. En el siglo XXI, los métodos de adaptación ganan espacio, realizándose diversas acciones de transformar historias de un medio a otro, creando de este modo una serie de referencias que se van cruzando y ampliándose. …”
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Past Times and Our Times: Reading Our Mutual Friend by David Paroissien

“…The rapacious and grasping ballad-seller he engages to read to him proves an uncertain authority on matters of historical interpretation and comically loose with Roman names and pronunciation. …”
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United in Times of War: Reading Mickey in 1940-1944 France by Eva Van De Wiele

“…Comics have built and maintained relationships with their readers over time, leading to what Martin Barker has called a “contract”. …”
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Codzienność rozszczelniona. O "Codziennej walce" Manu Larceneta by Damian Kaja

“…The interpretation of Larcenet’s graphic novel was carried out based on three premises: (1) the everyday settles into fiction thanks to mimesis; (2) contact with everyday life may lead to an epiphanic revelation of a spiritual truth (drawing on Jolanta Brach-Czaina’s concept described in her philosophical essay Szczeliny istnienia [Cracks in Existence], this phenomenon can be called the “unsealing” of everyday life); (3) literary depictions of human daily existence are where literature and sociology intersect, as a result of which literary works (or, comics in this case) help reveal the structures of everyday life.…”
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The Spartan King Leonidas I: History and modern times by E.A. Tchiglintsev, N.A. Shadrina

“…While the novelists describe Leonidas I as a tragic personality, the authors of the comics only invest him with functions attributable to the stereotypic visions of a hero.…”
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Family-focused intervention programme to foster adolescent mental health and well-being: protocol for a multicountry cluster randomised factorial trial (FLOURISH Phase 2) by Heather M Foran, Marija Raleva, Nina Heinrichs, Graham Moore, Yulia Shenderovich, Xiang Zhao, Judith Simon, Antonio Piolanti, Viorel Babii, Janina Mueller, Franziska Waller, Dennis Wienand, Swetha Sampathkumar, Ivo Kunovski

“…Effective and scalable interventions are urgently needed to address these challenges.Methods and analysis This protocol outlines a multicountry cluster randomised factorial trial, implemented according to the multiphase optimisation strategy (Phase 2), which evaluates the effectiveness and costs of three add-on components for the Parenting for Lifelong Health for Parents and Teens programme: adolescent mental health tools based on UNICEFs Helping Adolescents Thrive comics, adolescent peer support based on UNICEFs ‘I Support My Friends’ intervention and engagement booster designed to enhance attendance and programme completion through incentives. …”
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