Document Type
Journal article
Source Publication
Projections: the journal for movies and mind
Publication Date
2010
Volume
4
Issue
2
First Page
104
Last Page
127
Publisher
Berghahn Books Inc.
Keywords
Adaptation, Aesthetic Experience, Appreciation, Comparisons, Evaluation, Fellini-Satyricon, Fidelity, Film And Literature, Jean Mitry, Tess, The Count Of Monte-Cristo, The Human Stain, The Remains Of The Day, Vanity Fair
Abstract
This article explores basic constraints on the nature and appreciation of cinematic adaptations. An adaptation, it is argued, is a work that has been intentionally based on a source work and that faithfully and overtly imitates many of this source's characteristic features, while diverging from it in other respects. Comparisons between an adaptation and its source(s) are essential to the appreciation of adaptations as such. In spite of many adaptation theorists' claims to the contrary, some of the comparisons essential to the appreciation of adaptations as such pertain to various kinds of fidelity and to the ways in which similar types of artistic goals and problems are taken up in an adaptation and its source(s).
DOI
10.3167/proj.2010.040207
Print ISSN
19349688
E-ISSN
19349696
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Language
English
Recommended Citation
Livingston, P. (2010). On the appreciation of cinematic adaptations. Projections, 4(2), 104-127. doi: 10.3167/proj.2010.040207