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[Commlist] Literature/Film Quarterly 49.4 published (Special Issue: 'Watchmen, From Co-Mix to Remix')

Sun Oct 31 18:24:09 GMT 2021






We are delighted to announce the publication of the newest issue of /Literature/Film Quarterly/, a special issue dedicated to moving image adaptations of /Watchmen. /The full open-access issue is available here: https://lfq.salisbury.edu/index.html <https://lfq.salisbury.edu/index.html>
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/The recent successes of HBO’s 2019 limited series adaptation of /Watchmen/ (1986-87) have reignited interest in the adaptability of the path-breaking original comics series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, which to this day is routinely regarded as an ‘unfilmable’, ‘unadaptable’ work. The perceived failures of Zack Snyder’s widely disparaged feature film adaptation in 2009—justified or not—are well documented. And the official /Watchmen/ motion comic (2008-2009), which was a curtain opener of sorts to Snyder’s film, now seems all but forgotten. By stark contrast, Damon Lindelof (a long-time self-professed fan) has gone to great lengths to devise and position his limited series to not be a direct adaptation of /Watchmen/. In 2018, the showrunner took to Instagram to share an impassioned five-page open letter in which he assured fans of the original comics that /his/ version—much as it might be seen as a remake, sequel, or even a requel—is best considered as a ‘remix’. And critical consensus is that Lindelof’s version does just that: pre-existent motifs and meanings are thrown together in a new context, a new set of relations, a new recipe that has spoken in profound ways to the current political climate in the U.S. and the world.

Lindelof’s remix as the latest chapter in the moving image afterlives of Watchmen—in film, fan video, and television—raises a range of questions addressed by this special issue of /Literature/Film Quarterly/. How far can we push the notion of Lindelof’s version (or any adaptation for that matter) as a “remix?” What does his invocation of remix suggest about the broader transmedial ecology of Watchmen? How might Moore and Gibbons’ comics have reflexively anticipated, or even actively summoned, the idea of them being remixed? What are the experiential affordances of such a moving image remix for its audience? And, importantly, what are the political stakes of Lindelof’s Watchmen remix and its reception? With five incisive essays from Joshua Wille, Eduardo Navas, Aaron Taylor, Andrew Hoberek, and Sheila Nayar, this issue wants to drive home that there is a lot more to be said, in addition to Lindelof’s particular remix, for remixing as an evocative image for the kind of adaptive work that we find in his television series, and beyond.



/Literature/Film Quarterly/
ISSN 2573-7597
FALL 2021 VOL.49, NO. 4
Special Issue: "/Watchmen/, From Co-Mix to Remix"

Guest Editorial:
/Watchmen/, From Co-Mix to Remix <https://lfq.salisbury.edu/_issues/49_4/watchmen_from_comix_to_remix.html>
Martin P. Rossouw (University of the Free State)

Nothing Ever Ends: /Watchmen/, Fan Edits, and the Persistence of Revision <https://lfq.salisbury.edu/_issues/49_4/nothing_ever_ends_watchmen_fan_edits_and_the_persistence_of_revision.html>
Joshua Wille (Independent Scholar)

Damon Lindelof’s /Watchmen/ Remix: Creativity and Allegory <https://lfq.salisbury.edu/_issues/49_4/damon_lindelofs_watchmen_remix_creativity_and_allegory.html>
Eduardo Navas (Pennsylvania State University)

/Watchmen/ Remembered and Remixed: Memory and Performance in Complex Transmedia Television <https://lfq.salisbury.edu/_issues/49_4/watchmen_remembered_and_remixed_memory_and_performance_in_complex_transmedia_television.html>
Aaron Taylor (University of Lethbridge)

Of /Watchmen/ and Great Men: The Graphic Novel, the Television Series, and the Police <https://lfq.salisbury.edu/_issues/49_4/of_watchment_and_great_men_the_graphic_novel_the_television_series_and_the_police.html>
Andrew Hoberek (University of Missouri)

Who Watches /Watchmen/—and How? Shifting Epistemic Registers in the Comics and Television Series <https://lfq.salisbury.edu/_issues/49_4/of_watchmen_and_how_shifting_epistemic_registers_in_the_comics_and_television_series.html>
Sheila J. Nayar (University of Utah)


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