Finale Exam Flashcards
adaptations of classic novels and other classic literature; is a tendency used to characterize films, aiming to recreate past historical people and places
Heritage cinema
Dir. Spike Jonze, 2002
Adaptation
subtle and profound thoughts that are presented directly so audiences can infer what characters are thinking on the basis of their speech and behavior
Free indirect speech
different styles, voices, genres, points of view, accents, languages that coexist in a text that critics must take into account when approaching a novel
Heteroglossia
Refers to Latin American literature; for example: a griffin walking into the classroom, it wouldn’t be out of the ordinary, just another day
Magical Realism
Privileges literature as the superior art form
The aura of literature
Kept movies from becoming too offensive; effects resulted in the growing attraction of literary classics, since literature, even when the subject matter was morally suspect, could often carry a cultural weight sufficient to deflect the censors
The Production Code
dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1940
Rebecca
dir. Milos Forman, 1975
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
adjacent shots should relate to each other in such a way that A and B combine collide to produce another meaning, C, which is not actually recorded on the film
Eisenstein’s theory of montage
texts outside of the source text, but points back to the source; ex. illustrations, epilogue, table of contexts
Paratext
two contrasting and contradictory elements placed side by side to draw attention to their differences- for example, Lila and Lenu’s differing perspectives
Juxtaposition
dir. Lee Chang-dong, 2018
Burning
The morals of nature, knowledge, or events can coexist at the same time; I’m here, and I’m there.
Simultaneous existence
The more important and decisive the literary qualities of the work, the more the adaptation disturbs its equilibrium; it needs a creative talent to reconstruct it on a new equilibrium not identical with, but the equivalent of, the old one
Bazin’s equivalence of meaning
refers to the concept of alternate universes or dimensions co-existing with our own
Parallel existence
the degree to which a film adaptation remains true to its source material
Fidelity
the characteristic of the religions of the book
Logophilia
the conceiving of a media text as a tissue of voices and traces of other texts
Intertextual dialogism
the effective co-presence of two texts in the form of quotation, plagiarism, and allusion (film participates in double intertextuality, film and literature)
Intertextuality
the relation with totality of literal work between the text proper and its paratext; how supplementary texts surround the main text and influence how it is perceived and interpreted
Paratextuality
the critical relation between one text and another; basically a form of self-reflection where it comments on itself and/or its genre
Metatextuality
characterizes a text genetically in its title; is the designation of a text as a part of a genre/genres; reveals a deep connection between the text and its genre category
Architextuality
the relation and interconnection between hypertext (anterior/primary text) and hypotext (transformed, modified, and elaborated text)
Hypertextuality
