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Cross-Medium Transmutation

The Adaptation Graph

Preserved characters, compressed plots, altered endings, transformed settings, and player agency transfer: explore how form shapes narrative meaning.

Cross-Medium Adaptation LabCase Study: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

What Changes When a Story Changes Medium?

Follow Alice across 160 years as Victorian mathematical satire is transformed into Broadway slapstick, Czech stop-motion psycho-horror, and player-controlled survival action.

Mutation Matrix // 1865

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Creator: Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) & John Tenniel (Illustrations)

Character Alterations

Original Victorian linguistic satire; characters embody arbitrary logic games, mathematical paradoxes, and schoolroom parodies.

Focalization & Voice Shift

Third-Person free indirect focalization centered on a polite, highly articulate 7-year-old Victorian girl.

Tonal Transformation

Playful linguistic subversion of moralizing Victorian children's literature.

Agency Transfer

Linear textual reader progression; Alice's curiosity drives episodic encounters without an overarching martial quest.

Megalodon Crossover // Narratologium × Chromologium

Visual Framing: Tenniel's black-and-white cross-hatching established the definitive iconography of the playing-card soldiers and Cheshire grin.