Análise da adaptação The Lizzie Bennet Diaries através da Transmídia e o seu complemento na Narrativa Seriada

Abstract

It is intended, in this work, to analyze the adaptation of the novel Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, to the webseries The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, through the use of transmedia storytelling present in the production and how it collaborates to the construction of the serial storytelling. For that, it must be understood the relation of visual and verbal text, such as the development of the adaptation´s idea and the influences brought by the adaptors to the new version. It will be studied the importance of adaptation to creates a new language proper to the medium to which will be produced, which not always will coincide to the fidelity to original text. The second part of the research is turned to the Storytelling, subdividing itself on serial storytelling and transmedia storytelling so the basic storytelling elements can be understood and studied on seriality. Following the nomination given by the series production, this work will consider what was made in The Lizzie Bennet Diaries as transmedia to, in the end, consider the viability of the term. The transmedia storytelling acquire importance by the differential that it brings to The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and by the innovation that it takes to the seriality. Finally, five episodes will be analyzed through the criterions of relation to the adaptation, the transmedia, and, inserted on this one, how the story is worked in a serial way