Intertextuality and Translation in Film Adaptation

• 영문명: Intertextuality and Translation in Film Adaptation
• 발행기관: 한국외국어대학교 영미연구소
• 저자명: Sung-eun Cho
• 간행물 정보: 『영미연구』제12집, 87~104쪽, 전체 18쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 지역학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2005.06.01

영문 초록

  Even though the relationship between literature and film has evolved and grown extremely complex over the years, the most common mainstream discussions on this topic have centered on the notion of fidelity of the adapted film. However, many have come to realize that a study of adaptation based on fidelity criticism is inadequate and arguable. The fidelity issue overlooks the possibility of viewing cinematic adaptations as intertextual works and as critical interpretations of the literary text, which then enhance and expand our reading of the literary works. The film represents the filmmaker"s subjective understanding of the literary source. The cinematic adaptation of a novel therefore need not be seen uniquely as a question of "fidelity" to the source material.
  A cinematic adaptation of a literary text is essentially an interpretation of the original text using a different medium. It is fundamentally a translation, from one medium to another, of a narrative. Thus, the adaptation of literary texts to the medium of film can be examined within the context of translation.
  Furthermore when adaptation is studied along with the concept of intertextuality, the relation between the filmic text and its precursor written text stands less in a hierarchical order and more as an exchange, which adds to both text and source. The study of adaptation can now break out of the fixed notion of "original" versus "copy", which has dominated much of the discussion of film adaptation in recent years. Thus, the complex relationship between novel and film should now be explored in terms of other theoretical dimensions.

목차

1. Introduction
2. Fidelity in Adaptation
3. Intertextuality in Adaptation
4. Translation Studies and Film Adaptation
5. Conclusion
Works Cited
Abstract

키워드

Film Adaptation Translation Studies Intertextuality Fidelity