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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"film adaptation"”.
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Adapting poetics : a fusion of ideas in literature to film adaptation
… to formulate and test an original idea in adaptation theory, one that exploits theproductive aspects of the two main tendencies in adaptation studies, fidelity and intertextuality. Thequestion that is addressed here is how the prioritization of a novel's poetics as the focal point for …
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Film adaptation of the post-apartheid South African novel: re-examining the aesthetics of creation of disgrace
While many scholarships of the film adaptation of Disgrace have championed the fidelity rhetoric of the film with respect to J.M. Coetzee's novel, and in so doing, have advocated the axiomatic hierarchy of literature over cinema, this dissertation challenges the fidelity discourse about the film …
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Intertextuality in film adaptation and its translation: the case of tim burton’s film “alice in wonderland” (2010) and its lithuanian translation /
… given Master’s thesis, Tim Burton’s cinematic adaptation “Alice in Wonderland” (2010), based on Lewis Carroll’s novels “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” (1865) and “Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There” (1871) is approached as intersemiotic translation with the special focus on …
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Adapting Henry James to the screen: Washington Square & The portrait of a lady
This dissertation explores the film adaptations of two of the novels of Herny James, namely Washington Square (1880) and The Portrait of a Lady (1881). The Introduction discusses issues relating broadly to the problems and attractions of film adaptation. I draw especially on the work of James …
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To adapt or not to adapt? : Writers and writing across prose fiction, theatre, and film 1823-1938
… of prominent British literary writers in adaptations of their works to theatre and film between 1823 and 1938 to understand how unregulated adaptations, new media, media rivalries, the variable position of writers within and across media, and other social, cultural, economic, and legal …
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Imagining the Worst: Ladislav Fuks' Contributions to Holocaust Fiction
… to the Holocaust Literature genre, but also to film and literature in general. His two English-translated works, Mr. Theodore Mundstock and The Cremator, as well as the film adaptation of The Cremator, examine the role imagination can play in art that addresses atrocity, allowing for a …
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'Disquiet' novella and screenplay : adaptation and creative hybridity
… by establishing that the traditional focus of adaptation studies has been book-to-film adaptation. Within this field the issue of ‘fidelity’ has been a dominant concern although it is hard to find any scholar who is actively arguing for fidelity. I look at types of adaptation and then outline …
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Beyond Fidelity: Teaching Film Adaptations in Secondary Schools
… every secondary school English teacher includes film as part of the English/language arts curriculum, there is, to this point, nothing published about effectively studying the relationship between film adaptations and their print source texts in secondary school. There are several important works …
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Brave new forms: Adaptation, remediation, and intertextuality in the multimodal world of Hugo Cabret
… of Hugo Cabret—the hybrid graphic novel, the film adaptation, and the novel’s official website—in an effort to better understand how intertextuality, convergence culture, and remediation play with media forms, represent an ideological shift toward participatory culture, and rework older, …
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Avenging women: an analysis of postfeminist female representation in the cinematic Marvel’s Avengers series
… lack of meaningful representation of women in film. Widespread social contexts of sexism and postfeminism construct female representations that appear to empower but actually disempower women, and is subconsciously received. This series reinforces sexism and false postfeminist ideology through …
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Novelists/scenarists: Four Case Studies of Writers Adapting Their Own Fiction to Film (Wright, Nabokov, Dickey, Didion)
… own works of fiction to the screen. The four adaptations examined are Richard Wright's Native Son, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, James Dickey's Deliverance, and Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays. The works chosen are all serious and complex modern novels by major novelists. In each case, the …
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The World Become Image: Nonrepresentational Discussions of Film and the Natural World
… investigates the relationships between film and the natural world. Building upon extant work in the burgeoning field of Ecocinema, this project attempts to move beyond the scholarly work on Ecocinema that satisfies itself with questions of representation. The issues and arguments taken …
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DC unmade: failure, fandom and the Justice League films that could have been
Unmade films have received little attention as a general category, and this is doubly so for unmade superhero genre projects. The fact that these unfilms are failures in otherwise vibrant action franchises has typically led to their elision from canonical narratives. In studying two of the many …
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Paddle faster I hear techno music: mapping the prehomosexual and the posthomosexual in the souths of James Dickey and Samuel R. Delany
… by Southern literature scholars, due to the film adaptation taking a more prominent place in American pop culture. My analysis of Deliverance attempts to push back against that tendency by reading the novel through Herbert Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization in order to demonstrate that the novel …
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Visualising 'The Waste Land': Discovering a Praxis of Adaptation
… of the literary source in relation to specific adaptation procedures, in terms of what complexities were encountered and how these were understood. Whilst orthodox film adaptation provided a theoretical framework for initial experimentation, it is argued that my practice is positioned outside …
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"Post Your Version Here!": Performances in/of Online, Noncommercial, Video-to-Video Adaptations
<p>Processes of creative adaptation no longer fit traditional, culturally sanctioned forms, like commercial book-to-film adaptation, or vice versa. Meanwhile, internet users are demonstrating how noncommercial, creative text adaptation using video technology has become an everyday art form, a skill …
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A Virginia Woolf of One's Own: Consequences of Adaptation in Michael Cunningham's The Hours
… studies have overlapped at literary and film scholars' interest in adaptation. This interest has mainly focused on the examination of issues regarding adaptation of novel to novel or novel to film. Here I discuss both: Michael Cunningham's novel The Hours, which is an adaptation of …
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The Cultural Memory Of German Victimhood In Post-1990 Popular German Literature And Television
… Frau in Berlin</em> (2003), its 2008 German film adaptation and its reception. Secondly, I analyze Bernhard Schlink's bestselling novel <em>Der Vorleser</em> (1995) and its 2009 American film, which exculpate a former concentration camp guard on the dubious grounds that her illiteracy made …
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Beyond romance’s utopia: The individual and human love
… with particular focus on Andy Tennant's 1998 film adaptation of Cinderella, Ever After. Based on a Jungian approach to the psyche and psychic products, the methodological framework incorporates the three following tools: The tool of interpretation at the subjective level, in which the …
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Depoliticisation and Repoliticisation in Post-Colonial Indonesian Film Adaptations
… and repoliticisation in post-colonial Indonesian film adaptations, primarily focusing on Blood and Crown of the Dancer (1983) and The Dancer (2011), the two adaptations of Ahmad Tohari’s novel The Dancer (1982). The investigation is motivated by a series of problems in adaptation studies, namely, …
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