Cinderell Concept Of Remediation

Bolter and Grusin (1999) define the concept of remediation as the borrowing and refashioning of existing media forms. Where the newly refashioned media form will allow for the identification of faults of the old media forms, as a main feature, demonstrating the absence of immediacy within the medium. Which brings us to Bolter and Grusin (1999) concept of immediacy which tries to use the representation of objects within the medium to make the audience feel as if the medium does not exist.
An example of remediation I chose was the story and illustrations of Charles Perrault’s (1697) ‘Cendrillon’ (translated into ‘Cinderella’) which was later more famously remediated into the 1950’s fairy tale movie ‘Cinderella’ by the Walt Disney company and recently remediated into the 2015 ‘Cinderella’, also by Disney.
The illustrations within Charles Perrault’s ‘Cendrillon’ are very basic without any sort of depth or shading to the detail of the drawings, providing no immediacy. Instead it is providing a hypermediacy (Bolter and Grusin, 1999), where the medium has become so obvious making the audience aware of its features (or lack of) and failing to pull the audience into its form through these illustrations.
In comparison, to Charles Perrault’s ‘Cendrillon’ and ‘Cinderella’ (2015), ‘Cinderalla’ (1950), represents a more neutral standing of the immediacy and hypermediacy within the evolvement of these media forms—from analogue to digital. Where though the immediacy is much more engaging than that of the novel and illustrations, the hypermediacy is still very much present where the blemishes in “technicolor’ and the still two dimensional feel remind us that we are still viewing this through the