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THE WRATH OF THE ORIGINAL CAST
Translating embodied television characters to other media
When works of literature are adapted for the screen, the chief tasks facing the film-makers involve embodying the characters in actors whose material attributes do not offer a violent contradiction to the images generated in the typical reader's mind and repackaging the literary work's diegesis to fit the limitations of the filmic medium. When a television series is produced in a big-screen version, the challenges are substantially different. The appeal of a television series lies less in its narratives than in its continuing characters and general situation. The appeal of the characters is to a greater or lesser extent constituted also ...
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