Adaptation from literature to film
2 Novembro 2020, 11:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins
Brief overview of theoretical framework of adaptation that will be applied:
George Bluestone. Novels into Film (University of California Press: Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1957)
DeWitt Bodeen, "'The Adapting Art'", Films in Review, 14/6 (June-July 1963)
Michael Klein and Gillian Parker The English Novel and the Movies,1982.
Presentation of adaptations as a reflection of different influences:
•The times of their production – what is legally possible and/or accepted at one time may not be at another (first because it’s short)
•Perspective of the creator of the piece
•The media – source and target.
Discussion of the concepts of
•1) being faithful to the letter
•2)being faithful to the spirit while still recognising the specificities of Intertextuality.
Discussion of Michael Klein and Gillian Parker suggestions on different forms of intertextual fidelity/infedility:
a.fidelity to the main thrust of the narrative, even if the medium of telling the story is different and there are some reductions in the story but the central thrust is the same
b.retains the core of the structure of the narrative while significantly reinterpreting or, in some cases, deconstructing the source text;
c.the source merely as raw material, as simply the occasion for an original work.
Discussion of Anthony Minghella's 1999 adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel in this context.