Abstract Insofar as film is considered a storytelling medium, it is often compared unfavourably to literature. A film adaptation of a book is generally bedevilled by the so-called fidelity issue: is the film capable of imitating the ‘original’ tone of the novel? If not, then the film is regarded as a disappointment. This article aims… Continue reading Peter Verstraten | ‘In the script it is written, and on the screen, it’s pictures’: (Min)achting voor adaptaties
Category: 20.2 Literatuur en Film
Emy Koopman | Adaptatie, remediatie, disneyficatie: de weg van het volkssprookje naar de Disneyfilm
Abstract This essay traces the development of the folktale from its traditional oral form to a Disney commodity. The first part discusses a few general characteristics of folktales from a structuralist point of view. The second part deals with the development of the folktale from oral performance to literary fairytale. Finally the fairytale-films by Walt… Continue reading Emy Koopman | Adaptatie, remediatie, disneyficatie: de weg van het volkssprookje naar de Disneyfilm
Thomas Elsaesser | Cinephilia – Film Studies – Cultural Studies
Abstract In this article I want to look at a double conjuncture around an object of study – the cinema – which has itself only recently been accorded the status of a discipline: film studies. Precisely because of its somewhat ‘performative’ position in the academy compared to literary studies, art history or philosophy, film studies… Continue reading Thomas Elsaesser | Cinephilia – Film Studies – Cultural Studies
Annejan Barelds | Adaptation in Adaptation.. Or the Significance of Failure
Abstract Within the theoretical framework as formulated by Jacques Derrida in Specters of Marx, Spike Jonze’s and Charlie Kaufman’s Adaptation. can be interpreted as a generic account of what is happening when a novel is adapted to the screen. The film shows how this process is structured around the fidelity criterion on the one hand… Continue reading Annejan Barelds | Adaptation in Adaptation.. Or the Significance of Failure
Jan Baetens | De strategie van het enjambement; met een case-study over Garbage (1993) van A.R. Ammons
Abstract The enjambment is a crucial rhetoric figure within poetry, yet it is not often object of study in recent literary research. This is partly due to the fact that contemporary poetry, in which classical metre and classical prosody are no longer of significant importance, does not offer a suitable framework for studying the impact… Continue reading Jan Baetens | De strategie van het enjambement; met een case-study over Garbage (1993) van A.R. Ammons