1. retelling - Noun
2. retelling - Verb
retelling
present participle of retell
retelling (plural retellings)
A new, changed, or adapted version of a story.
The new film is a needless retelling of what was already a cinematic classic.
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. C. S. Lewis
Roecker sure is a romantic about certain things, like art and music, though you might not know it from watching Live Freaky! Die Freaky!, his claymation musical retelling of the Helter Skelter Charlie Manson saga. John Roecker
You and me Haymitch. Very cozy. Picnics, birthdays, long winter nights sitting around the fire retelling old Hunger Games tale. -Peeta Mellark. Suzanne Collins
Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment. George Lucas
We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now. Julie Taymor
No chronology of Soviet atrocities can convey the crushing of the human spirit under Lenin and his successors. But the retelling of 70 years of grisly facts leaves little doubt that what we face today in Soviet communism is, indeed, an 'evil empire. Michael Johns