The Art of Adaptation in Film and Video Games

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Mulan; adaptation; Disney; Orientalism; cultural authenticity; cultural palimpsest; Chinese cinema; science fiction; The Wandering Earth; patricide; patrilineality; adaptation; nationalism; media; mass culture; adaptation; film; digital games; film adaptation; experimental game design; game design process documentation; T.S. Eliot; Prufrock; remediation; comic strip; animated film; split screen; video poem; YouTube dramatic monologue; photographic montage; Contagion; propaganda; pandemic; premediation; Steven Soderbergh; Scott Z. Burns; transit; migrants; empathy; liminal spaces; Bildungsroman; modernity; adaptation; videogames; Shakespeare; Tale of a Forest; adaptation; biodiversity; documentary; ecocriticism; environmental narrative; forest; nature photography; nostalgia; species; video games; game studies; adaptation; Star Wars; George Lucas; game reviews; criticism; thematic analysis; Japanese video games; game localization; cultural adaptation; localization approaches; localization strategies; domestication; foreignization; reception; adaptation; trauma; origin; psychoanalysis; repetition; impossibility; loss; representation; extremity; writing; image; failure; memoir; missed experience; creative writing studies; screenwriting; video game narrative design; interactive writing; horror film; horror video games; survival horror; character development; sci-fi; thriller; videogames; film; adaptation; genre; tropes; methodology; n/a; n/a