Process and Product, Transfer and Adaptation Proper, Real-World Practice
The Essentials of Text-to-Screen Adaptation
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https://doi.org/10.18485/bells.2023.15.17Keywords:
film adaptation, novel-to-film adaptation, text-to-screen adaptation, intertextual dialogism, adaptation as process, adaptation as product, adaptation reception, transfer, adaptation properAbstract
Understanding the development of adaptation studies and the restrictions, requirements, and possibilities of literature-to-film adaptations enables an effective engagement with adaptations of narrative literature into film. An overview of the disparate approaches to defining adaptations, of Robert Stam’s reevaluation of adaptations on the basis of ‘intertextual dialogism’, and of Linda Hutcheon’s layered understanding of adaptations as processes and products sets up the essential framework for understanding text-to-screen adaptations. The demands for transfer and adaptation proper within adaptations of literary texts to films, and the similarities and differences between cinematic and literary codes complement the essential framework for effectively evaluating text-to-screen adaptations.
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