Nicola Dusi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Nicola Dusi is involved.
Articles
2025 A postmodern western or a cinematic TV series? Breaking Bad between intermediality and intersemiotic translation Transmedia in Translation and Transculturation, Giannakopoulou, Vasso and Elin Sütiste (eds.), pp. 32–54 | Chapter
This work examines some rhetorical and sociosemiotic operations that contribute to create contemporary narrative ecosystems, focusing on Breaking Bad (AMC 2008–13), a TV series that has often been defined as both “cinematic” and a “postmodern western,” while it opens itself up to intertextual… read more
2013 Degrees of indetermination
in intersemiotic translation Iconic Investigations, Elleström, Lars, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. 247–260 | Article
Discussing the problem of ‘intersemiotic translation’ from literature to film Eco (2003) maintains that an adaptation inevitably explicates the unsaid, showing and therefore establishing a point of view precisely where the novel is vaguest. In my opinion a movie can create variable degrees of… read more