FILM 1502 1st Edition Lecture 15Outline of Last Lecture I. What is Adaptation and what does it really mean in the process of filmmaking?II. Why has there been some struggle between film studies and literary studies and how has this impacted the evaluation of adaptations?III. Discussion: Though we understand that Jaws is an adaptation, how does it represent very real limits in terms of the “closeness” and efficacy of filmic adaptation?Outline of Current Lecture I. Discuss reading Current LectureFilm and Literature-Adaptation 10/23 According to Cartmell, the problem with the fact that film studies departments were born from literaturestudies departments is that “closeness” of an adaptation became equated with quality (TRUE)The Shining - Example of poor adaptation-book and movie have different agendasAdaptation- Cultural capital: belief that novel is true art form- Translation vs. creation- Structural and formal—film is completely separate, own entity- Pitfall: relationship b/w lit. and film, film was born out of lit. - A “haunted” cinema—always feel the haunting of the book when seeing filmo Palimpsest: going into a movie after reading a book and seeing the film through that lens, source texts invariably impact how we see the film-can be intentional or not- Lolita (Stanley Kubrick, 1962)o Reliable point of view becomes unreliable—cannot trust Being retold by Humbert Humbert, hard to adapt this lens in film - Jawso Source material-not simple, film simplifies ploto Structure and through line Triadic structure b/w main characters o Narrative consolidation-simplified and streamlines Audience understanding, reduced cost These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.Fight Club- Source material - Cacophony society-where project mayham came from, based on true events- A “social model”-books about when clubso Write novel about men sharing liveso Masculinist response- Close vs. loose adaptation - Structure—Tyler Durdan figure of self destruction o Begin in same spot o Book Beginning: about martyr, project mayham trashing everything in buildings, throwing down to the people-not in film, no one is there in film Ending: goal to destroy museum-kill the past, history is the enemy, destroy structure around him, Tyler is darker, and so is everyone else, about destructiono Film Tyler wants to make the world better, materialism is evil, narrator is destructor, goal to destroy something beautifulo Key differences: Boss is killed in novel with a computer and the narrator knows about project mayham, the film creates a distance b/w narrator and project in order to hide the alter personality, creates sympathy for
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