Adaptation, Hypermediation, and Feminine Subjectivity: <i>Paradise Lost</i> and <i>The Fall</i>

ABSTRACT This article cross-reads allusion, adaptation, and remediation in Paradise Lost and Allan Cubitt’s crime television-series The Fall (2013–16), exploring relations of feminine subjectivity and mediation in both texts. Mediated representations of women and women’s uses of mediated representation are central themes in both The Fall and Milton’s epic. Hypermediations that densely interleave different media forms draw attention to their operations, making them available for critique and perhaps for emendation. The Fall presents a series of hypermediated images that crystallize questions about the ways that adaptations can reproduce, question, or counter ideology encoded in their source texts.