Michael Winterbottom’s The Claim (2000) as a transnational and transcultural adaptation of The Mayor of Casterbridge

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarida Esteves Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Hardy ◽  
Film Adaptation ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Community Construction ◽  
Transcultural Adaptation ◽  
Film Productions ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Transnational Film

In this article, we will be focusing on issues of transnational and transcultural film adaptation using as a case study a particular screen adaptation of the novel The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy entitled The Claim (Michael Winterbottom 2000). The article aims to analyse the film in relation to these issues, taking into account notions of transcultural adaptation and transnational film productions, as well as mobility and migration in the context of a nineteenth-century film text. It is not only a text that relocates Hardy’s narrative into a new geographical/cultural dimension, but also it is itself a transnational production. Moreover, in the case of The Claim, there seems to be a clear understanding of processes of intercultural community construction that are particularly productive to look at. The article establishes a link between the particular transcultural perspective raised in this film and Michael Winterbottom’s oeuvre, taking also into account other adaptations of Hardy’s novels by the same director and the Western genre that underlies this film production.

DRAMATIC ELEMENTS IN DASHNER’S MAZE RUNNER NOVEL AND FILM ADAPTATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-88
Author(s):  
Anggia Putria ◽  
Muizzu Nurhadi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Film Adaptation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The research aims to reveal how the application of dramatic elements of Dashner’s Maze Runner is transformed into its film adaptation. To achieve the purpose, the researcher analyzes seven dramatic elements by Gustav Freytag’s Pyramid which consist of exposition, inciting moment, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, and denouement. This research uses the descriptive qualitative method. The results of this research are the differences of the dramatic elements in the novel and film adaptation are not significant because only the scenes of exposition and rising action are not similar.

Materializing Ulysses

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Forster
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Film Adaptation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Perceived Power

This chapter compares the reception of Joyce’s 1922 Ulysses with that of Joseph Strick’s 1967 film adaptation of the novel. Although Ulysses had been legally publishable in England for decades, Strick’s film still encountered censorship from the British Board of Film Censors. The chapter argues that Joyce’s novel, for all its obscenity and provocation, mitigated its threat by foregrounding its own printedness, allying its fate to the waning power of print as a bearer of obscenity. Strick’s film, by contrast, activated the perceived power of film. The contrast of the two versions of Ulysses, which are often identical in language, thus offers a valuable window on how obscenity changed across media through the twentieth century. In making this argument, the chapter surveys print strategies of censorship, including the asterisk, and how these strategies operated in a range of works.

‘Their Voices Ring in My Ears’: Laura, the Fugue, and Adaptation

Adaptation ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret A Toth ◽  
Teresa Ramoni
Keyword(s):  
Film Adaptation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Adaptation Studies

Abstract This essay analyzes Vera Caspary’s novel Laura (1943) and the 1944 film adaptation (Preminger) in order to demonstrate an approach to adaptation studies we call fugal. If a fugue is a composition based on a ‘subject’ or short melodic phrase and its various ‘answers’—in other words, variations that maintain elements of the melody but also play with and revise it—how might we position the film as a variation on, rather than a reproduction of, Caspary’s novel? To explore this question, we analyze the sonic register of both the novel and film. Caspary doesn’t want us to merely read her novel; she wants us to listen to the voices that narrate it and the tunes that populate it. Similarly, listening to the film—not simply the dialogue but also the voiceover narration and David Raksin’s groundbreaking score—allows us to identify content not overt in, and sometimes at odds with, the visuals. When we listen critically and carefully, we can distinguish nuances that get lost in a strict fidelity approach; in particular, we can identify both works’ feminist content, especially their attempts to decentre patriarchal hard-boiled conventions and to confound notions of a singular truth.

scholarly journals METHODS AND TECHNIQUES OF MYTHOLOGIZATION IN S. RUSHDIE’S NOVEL ‘THE GROUND BENEATH HER FEET’

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-82
Author(s):  
Ekaterina V. Vasiljeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Greek Mythology ◽  
Orpheus And Eurydice ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Indian Origin ◽  
Methods And Techniques ◽  
Artistic Interpretation ◽  
Iconic Images

The study is devoted to the analysis of methods and techniques of mythologization in the novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet written by the British author of Indian origin S. Rushdie. The paper explores the narrative organization of the novel, in which images and motifs of ancient mythology are used as a special code for artistic interpretation of European culture of the second half of the 20th century. The article examines the artistic reality of the novel, which combines the modern history of rock culture and classical mythology of Ancient Greece. S. Rushdie addresses problems related to the nature of creativity using as the main plot-forming motifs such mythologemes as the love story of Orpheus and Eurydice, the myth of alldevouring Tartarus, twin myths. The study shows that a typical technique for creating expressive threedimensional multivocal images in Rushdie's novel is a combination of real facts from the world of rock culture and mythological allusions, intertwining, overlapping and collision of various motifs and plots of Greek mythology, which, taken all together, generates the original artistic reality. The article analyzes how the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice acquires a cultural dimension in the novel and what techniques are used by the author to activate the extensive cultural memory of the Orphic myth. The concentration and interpretation of iconic images and motifs of ancient mythology are used in the novel for artistic analysis of the state of culture in the second half of the 20th century and of its attempts to counter the catastrophic tendencies of destruction and death of the modern civilization.

scholarly journals Konkretyzacja estetyczna w Zwierzętach nocy (2016) Toma Forda

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrycja Rojek
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Film Adaptation ◽  
Literary Fiction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Moving Images ◽  
Communication Situations ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Insight Into

Rojek Patrycja, Konkretyzacja estetyczna w Zwierzętach nocy (2016) Toma Forda [Aesthetic Concretization in Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals (2016)]. „Przestrzenie Teorii” 32. Poznań 2019, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, pp. 401–416. ISSN 1644-6763. DOI 10.14746/pt.2019.32.22. The subject of Austin Wright’s novel Tony and Susan (published in 1993) is the reader’s experience. The peculiar relationship that forms between the main female character - a reader of literary fiction – and the novel itself as well as its author, inspired in 2016 Tom Ford to capture the specifics of the same relationships using the language of moving images. This article presents the effects of studying the complex system of communication situations occurring in the novel and its film adaptation: each of them contains an additional story around which further author-reader relationships are formed. The analysis shows that a significant part of the film’s plot is not a direct insight into the novel, but its concretization projected by a female protagonist. Tom Ford’s film is therefore considered in relation to Roman Ingarden’s theory on aesthetic concretization.

scholarly journals On the Education of Surkhan Oasis in Archival Documents (in 1920-30)

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 289-294
Author(s):  
O. Isaev
Keyword(s):  
Educational System ◽  
School System ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Traditional Schools ◽  
The Novel ◽  
State Archive ◽  
Central State ◽  
Archival Documents

The materials which were stated in this article is about 1920–1930 and it discusses processes of educational system in Surkhan valley on the basis of data from Uzbek Republic Central State Archive, as well as regional Archive of Surkhandarya province, and Archives of districts. The article reveals clear understanding about how educational affairs went on in the valley, constructions of schools, and liquidation of old traditional schools and establishment of the novel soviet educational school system.

scholarly journals A Tradução Intersemiótica na construção da personagem Holly Golithly em Breakfast at Tiffany’s: entre o romance e o cinema

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (44) ◽  
pp. 246-259
Author(s):  
Sinara De Oliveira Branco ◽  
Mariana Assis Maciel
Keyword(s):  
Image Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Film Adaptation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Multimodal Corpus ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this text is to analyze the intersemiotic construction of Holly Golithly in two contexts: the novel and the film Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961). Along the film adaptation, the focus will be on the observation of how people and places influence her behaviour, taking into consideration the relationship between the imagetic and the verbal contexts (word-image relationship). The theoretical framework used is based on the Theory of Adaptation; the Intersemiotic Translation; Subtitling; Image Analysis and Film Narrative. The multimodal corpus compiled involves the selected scenes from the film, offering frames and subtitles, as well as excerpts from the novel. Results have shown how the character has changed in the film adaptation regarding her construction in the film narrative. With the application of intersemiotic translation, it was possible to observe how the analysis of the scenes and subtitles help with the construction and the interpretation of the character.

Hemorrhagic complications of а novel coronavirus infection: actual clinical problem.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
И.Б. Симарова ◽  
С.Н. Переходов ◽  
А.Ю. Буланов
Keyword(s):  
Case Reports ◽  
Clinical Problem ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Hemorrhagic Events ◽  
Thrombotic Complications ◽  
Predictive Role ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Therapeutic Doses

Гиперкоагуляционный характер коагулопатии, ассоциированной с новой коронавирусной инфекцией COVID-19, и высокий риск связанных с этим тромботических осложнений — хорошо известный факт на сегодняшний день. Тем не менее в литературе имеются описания и геморрагических событий у больных COVID. В обзоре приведен анализ публикаций, описывающих кровотечения при коронавирусной инфекции; общая частота их в среднем составляет 4–8%. Превалируют желудочно-кишечные кровотечения, существенную часть составляют межмышечные гематомы и кровоизлияния в кожу и слизистые. Показана предиктивная роль применения антикоагулянтов в терапевтических дозах и гипофибриногенемии. Отмечено отсутствие четкого понимания патофизиологических механизмов. Hypercoagulable character of coagulopathy associated with the novel coronavirus infection COVID-19, and the high risk of associated thrombotic complications is a well-known fact. However, there are also case reports of hemorrhagic events in COVID patients in the literature. The review summarizes the publications describing bleedings in coronavirus infection; their overall frequency is on average 4–8%. Gastrointestinal bleeding are prevalent, intermuscular hematomas and hemorrhages in the skin and mucous membranes are frequent. The predictive role of anticoagulants use in therapeutic doses and hypofibrinogenemia is shown. The absence of clear understanding of the pathophysiological mechanisms is noted.

Abstract 15691: The Novel High Mobility Group Protein Hmgxb4 Promotes Neointimal Formation in Response to Arterial Injury

Circulation ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 142 (Suppl_3) ◽  
Author(s):  
xiangqin he ◽  
Kunzhe Dong ◽  
Jian Shen ◽  
Islam Osman ◽  
Guoqing Hu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Smooth Muscle ◽  
Neointimal Hyperplasia ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
High Mobility ◽  
Arterial Injury ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Neointimal Formation ◽  
Vsmc Proliferation ◽  
And Migration

Introduction: Restenosis after percutaneous intervention is predominantly attributed to proliferation and migration of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs). However, the key regulators responsible for VSMC proliferation and migration remain to be identified. Hypothesis: We previously reported that the novel high mobility group (HMG) nuclear protein HMGXB4 (HMG-Box containing 4) plays a critical role in the de-differentiation of vascular smooth muscle cells in vitro and in acute inflammatory response to septic shock. We hypothesize that HMGXB4 is critical for neointimal hyperplasia in response to inflammatory stimuli. Methods and Results: We found that the expression of HMGXB4 is dramatically induced in ligation or wire injury-induced neointimal hyperplasia and correlated with the activation of inflammatory signaling in mice. Using an inducible smooth muscle-specific Hmgxb4 KO (knockout) mice model, we found specific KO of Hmgxb4 in VSMCs ameliorates ligation- or wire- injury induced neointimal formation. Among an array of growth factors and inflammation cytokines, we found that TNFα and INFγ effectively induces the expression of HMGXB4 in VSMCs and correlates with the VSMC proliferation in vitro. Furthermore, we found deletion of HMGXB4 attenuates while over-expression of HMGXB4 promotes inflammation cytokines-induced VSMC proliferation in vitro. These results suggest injury-induced inflammatory signal triggers HMGXB4 induction, which, in turn, promotes the VSMC proliferation and neointimal formation. Conclusions: Our study not only demonstrates a critical role of HMGXB4 in promoting neointimal hyperplasia in response the arterial injury, but also suggests HMGXB4 is a potential novel target for the management of restenosis in human.

Seducing-Machines

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean McQueen
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Film Adaptation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Car Crashes ◽  
Primary Focus

This chapter turns to the 1973 J.G. Ballard novel Crash as well as its 1996 film adaptation by Cronenberg. It aims to make careful distinctions between Deleuze and Baudrillard and show why they gravitate to Crash. The primary focus in the novel is a cult of bored, middle-class professionals who feel alive only after modifying their bodies via staged car crashes. From here, the chapter reveals that Crash is notably quite flexible and can be subjected to many theoretical approaches, at times producing contradictory readings as a result. While Crash the novel might be a distinctly Baudrillardian creature, for example, Crash the Cronenberg film appears to lean more toward Deleuze.

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