Iluminace 2010, 22(1):23-59

What happens during adaptation?

Linda Hutcheon

A chapter from Linda Hutcheon's book discusses the prejudices that still influence debates about literature in film. She also looks at the field of theatre, computer games, ballet, opera and radio dramatizations. Among the clichés whose validity she denies in her text is the repeated attribution of the intimacy of point of view or the interiority of the experiencing object exclusively to literary narrative. He also addresses issues of time, irony, metaphor or symbol in relation to narratives actualized by verbal and performative media. The author concludes her text by referring to the authors of truisms, to which she is dismissive, as the protectors of literature.

Keywords: film adaptations, film adaptations of literary works, literature and film, theatre and film, radio and film, television and film, film theory, film adaptations of plays, film adaptations of musicals, film adaptations of comics, film adaptations of operas, film adaptation of a computer game, film adaptation of a radio play, film adaptation of a television programme, film adaptation of a television series, film aesthetics, narrative in film, time in film, metaphor in film, symbol in film

Published: March 1, 2010  Show citation