#PostMediaCondition

[bhanu-prakash]

The Academic Blog Post 05

Exploring Intertextuality, Transmedia, and Hyperdiegesis in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Figure 1: Miles Morales in the Spider-Verse

The Spider-Man- Spider-Verse is irregular which is animated movie that challenges which is unusual for the most famous cultural depictions of superhero movies and integrates for comic books which are trendy in the market within a movie plot. It offers itself as a textbook example of transmedia hybridity—the border between the art of the cartoonist of the pre-Tezuka era, the animated cartoon effects of the postwar Japanese animators, and the digital cinema of the contemporary world). This paper analyses/ discusses the film as a Gesamtkunstwerk and seeks to examine how the filmmaker employed the spirit of the medium specificity in coming up with a special vision. This series is the best example of executing the various ideas of Gesamtkunstwerk since it has many forms of various ideas and of arts that differ in it and nothing of them overshadows the other.

Figure 2: The Multiverse in Action

Make use of funny or comic books and animations such as 3D which are aesthetic sensibility and accompanied by a musical style it becomes the best experience. Beautiful colors, which are combined by music effectively also touch the plot of the characters of the Spider-Verse successfully intertwining these various elements in one authentic piece. Unlike recent films which alternately recount parallel stories, the flexible and constantly shifting composition of panel solutions in conjunction with the smooth bridging of the universes accentuates the movie’s impact on the audience as Wagner envisioned the perfect Gesamtkunstwerk. Only in regards to the medium specificity, Spider-Verse makes use of animation to provide the viewers with ideas and emotions that could not have been reached in live-action. Some effects such as halftone dots, motion lines, and on-screen text attempt to ape the aesthetics of printed comics to project this look and feel quite close to its inspiration. Unlike all the live-action movies of Spiderman, this animated feature is liberal with hand-drawn elements with computer graphics, which opens up possibilities of truly outstanding scenes such as the one involving colors during jumping between dimensions. As Lev Manovich pointed out, the post-media condition means that no medium becomes dominant, and animation proves that creativity can step over the limits of the media hierarchy.

References:

Sony Pictures Entertainment. (2018). Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - Official Trailer. YouTube. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg52up16eq0.

Walulik, A. (2021). Into the Spider-Verse is a masterclass in animation and storytelling. The Nerd Report. Retrieved from https://medium.com/the-nerd-report/into-the-spider-verse-is-a-masterclass-in-animation-and-storytelling-5b671e57d1e6.

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