Twelve Angry Men on Television and Film. Issue 1 (18th May 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Raw, Lawrence
• Is Part Of: Open library of humanities. Volume 3:Issue 1(2017)
• Publication Date: 2017-05-18
• DOI: 10.16995/olh.102
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2056-6700

Abstract

This article considers the relationship between 'remediation' and 'transmediality' through a comparison of the television and first film versions of Reginald Rose's play Twelve Angry Men . It suggests that rather than trying to describe the process of transmuting one text from one medium into another, we should concentrate instead on process – those social, industrial and cultural forces that influenced the way in which a source-text was worked upon in collaborative media such as film and television. The article also suggests that, contrary to the prevailing theoretical trend, transmedial and/or remediatory processes have been characteristic of the media in the past as well as in the present, even though the range of platforms available might have been limited.