Storytelling sans frontières? On Adaptation, Remaking, Intertextuality, and Transmediality

Still from the trailer for (The Twilight Saga:) New Moon (Chris Weitz, 2009)

Another rather long links list today, this time on one of Film Studies For Free's author's main research specialisms: adaptation (and remaking, 'remediation', 'transmediality') and intertextuality. The list -- as always of direct links to openly-accessible scholarly resources -- is particularly meaty in celebration of a very cool happening. A proposed contribution by her on these topics to a panel at the Los Angeles Society of Cinema and Media Studies annual conference in 2010 was accepted this week (woohoo!).

A video-essay version of this work -- entitled 'Intertextuality and Anomalousness: Luis Buñuel’s The Young One (1960)' -- part of a great panel called 'Looking Backwards and Thinking Forwards: Engaging the Cinema of 1960 with Multimedia Scholarship' will appear on this website in due course...

So, in celebration of the above, do please enjoy the following links to very high quality scholarly resources on adaptation and narrative transmediality, with a nice little video embedded at the very end:

• Gunhild Agger, 'Intertextuality Revisited: Dialogues and Negotiations in Media Studies', Canadian Aesthetics Journal / Revue canadienne d'esthétique, Volume 4, Summer/Été 1999

• Joseph Aisenberg, 'Re-examining the Crossed Wires in Kubrick's and Burgess' A Clockwork Orange', Bright Lights Film Journal, No. 61, August 2008

• William Arighi, 'Beyond Black and White: Structural Liminality and Slave Insurrection', Portals: A Journal in Comparative Literature, 2006

• Genilda Azerêdo, 'From Emma to Clueless: ironic representations of Jane Austen1',  Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies, Vol. 0, No 51 (2006)

• Martin Ball, 'Cultural Values and Cultural Death in The Lord of the Rings', Australian Humanities Review, January 2003

• Charles Bane, 'Viewing Novels, Reading Films: Stanley Kubrick and the art of adaptation as interpretation, PhD e-thesis, Louisiana State University 2006

• André Bazin, on René Clement and literary adaptation: Two original reviews

• Richard Berger, ‘Are There Any More at Home Like You?’: Rewiring Superman', Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance, Vol. 1, Issue 2, 2008

• Catharine Walker Bergström, 'Searches for the Significant: Robert Zemeckis' Cast Away as a Late Twentieth Century Response to Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe' Journal of Religion and Film, Volume 9, Number 1 (April 2005)

• Gary Bettinson, 'Penning Dramatic Chance: Adaptation, Dürrenmatt, and The Pledge', Film Studies, Volume 5 (Winter 2004)

• Jack Boozer, 'Introduction: The Screenplay and Authorship in Adaptation', Authorship in Film Adaptation (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007)

• David Bordwell, 'Now leaving from platform 1 [on transmedia storytelling]', Observations on Film Art, August 19, 2009

• Pat Brereton, 'Database Logics and New Media Convergences in Science Fiction A reading of Spielberg’s Minority Report and AI', MIT Media in Transition 6 Stone and Papyrus, Storage in Transmission Conference April 2009

• Brad Bucknell, 'Faith in the Faithless: An Inter(re)view with Linda Hutcheon', Inter(re)view.indd, February 24, 2008

• Timothy Burke, 'Less-Convergent Culture', Easily Distracted, October 7, 2009

• Sarah Cardwell, 'Present(ing) Tense: Temporality and Tense in Comparative Theories of Literature-Film Adaptation', Scope, July 2000

• Jennie Carlsten, "'Somehow the Hate has got Mislaid': Adaptation and The End of the Affair", UBCInephile,

• John Caughie, 'Small Pleasures: Adaptation and the Past in British Film and Television', Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies, Vol. 0, No 32 (1997)

• Garrett Chaffin-Quiray, 'An Adaptation With Fangs: Herzog's Nosferatu,' Kinoeye, Vol. 2, Issue 20, December 2002

• Paul Coughlin, 'The Mark of Cain: Blood Simple and The Man Who Wasn't There', Issue 3, November 2005

• Catherine Craft-Fairchild, 'Castaway and Cast Away: Colonial, Imperial, and Religious Discourses in Daniel Defoe and Robert Zemeckis', Journal of Religion and Film, Volume 9, Number 1 (April 2005)

• Thomás Creus, 'When Harry met Zuckerman:self-reflexivity and metafiction in Philip Roth and Woody Allen', Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies, Vol. 0, No 51 (2006)

• Mary Donaldson-Evans, 'A Medium of Exchange: The Madame Bovary Film', Dix Neuf, Number 4 (April 2005)

• Lindiwe Dovey, 'Towards an Art of Adaptation: Film and the New Criticism-as-Creation', Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, Issue 2 - Mediations

• Kamilla Elliott, 'Introduction', Rethinking the Novel/Film Debate (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2003)

• David Foster, 'Adapting Lyricism: Clive Holden's Trains of Winnipeg and the Lyric in Film', Scope, Portals Special Issue, Issue 13, 2008

• Michael Fry, 'Researching the Method: Some Personal Strategies', Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance, Vol. 1, Issue 2, 2008

• Christine Geraghty, Classic television: a matter of time. In: The Making and Remaking of Classic Television, 19 Mar 2009, University of Warwick

• Lincoln Geraghty, “Realities... blending as one!”: Film Texts and Intertexts in the Star Trek/X-Men Crossover Comics', MeCCSA Papers, January 2005

• Catherine Grant , 'Recognising Billy Budd in Beau Travail: Epistemology and Hermeneutics of Auteurist "Free" Adaptation', Screen ((Spring 2002)) 43 (1):57–73

• Catherine Grant, 'The "Author Function" in Transnational Film Adaptation: The case of El lugar sin límites / The Place Without Limits / Hell Has No Limits (Arturo Ripstein, Manuel Puig, José Donoso)', originally published as 'La función de "los autores": la adaptación cinematográfica transnacional de El lugar sin límites', Revista Iberoamericana, Vol. LXVIII, Núm, 199, Abril-Junio 2002, pp. 253-268

• Yvonne Griggs, 'Ran: Chaos on the ‘Western’ Frontier', Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance, Vol. 1, Issue 2, 2008

• Asbjørn Grønstad, 'The Gaze of Tiresias: Joyce, Rossellini and the Iconology of "The Dead"', Nordic Journal of English Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2002

• Richard Grusin, 'Dvds, video games, and the cinema of interactions', Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies, Vol. 0, No 51 (2006)

• Sandra Guardini T. Vasconcelos, 'Literature and cinema: images of femininity in pride and prejudice', Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies, Vol. 0, No 42 (2002)

• Brian Henderson,'Tense, Mood, and Voice in Film: (Notes after Genette)', Film Quarterly: Forty Years—A Selection, Edited By Brian Henderson and Ann Martin with Lee Amazonas (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999)

• Lori Hitchcock, 'Third Culture Kids: A Bakhtinian Analysis of Language and Multiculturalism in Swallowtail Butterfly', Scope, February 2004

• Andrew Horton, Play it again, Sam: Retakes on Remakes. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998

• Linda Hutcheon, 'From Page to Stage to Screen, Inaugural Lecture, January 27, 2003

• Mikhail Iampolski, The Memory of Tiresias: Intertextuality and Film. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998

• Tim Iles, 'The Matrix and the Subversion of Wu xia: Reasserting the Hollywood Ideological Hegemony', Scope, Issue 8, June 2007

• Mark Jancovich, 'Shadows and Bogeymen: Horror, Stylization and the Critical Reception of Orson Welles during the 1940s', Particpations, Vol. 6, Issue 1, May 2009

• Henry Jenkins, Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: The Aesthetics of Transmedia: In Response to David Bordwell (Part One) ; Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: The Aesthetics of Transmedia: In Response to David Bordwell (Part Two) ; Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: The Aesthetics of Transmedia: In Response to David Bordwell (Part Three) (September 2009)

• David T. Johnson, 'Playgrounds of Unlimited Potential: Adaptation, Documentary, and Dogtown and Z-Boys', Adaptation Vol. 2 , No. 1 , pp. 1 – 16 (2009)

• David L. Kranz and Nancy C. Mellerski, 'Introduction', In/Fidelity: Essays on Film Adaptation (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008)

• Jennifer E. Langdon, Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood (Columbia University Press, 2008)

• Thomas Leitch, 'Adaptation Studies at a Crossroads', Adaptation, 1(1), 2008 ): 63-77 (pdf)

• Phillip Lopate, 'Adapt this: Fiction into Film', Bookforum.com, June/July/Aug 2007

• Richard Maltby, "The problem of interpretation ...": authorial and institutional intentions in and around Kiss me deadly', Screening the Past, June 2000

• Alfredo Michel Modenessi, 'Disney’s “war efforts”: the lion king and Education for death, or Shakespeare made easy For your apocalyptic convenience', Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies , Vol. 0, No 49 (2005)

• Kendra Preston Leonard, 'Silencing Ophelia: Male Aurality as a Controlling Element in Olivier's Hamlet', Scope, Issue 14, June 2009

• James MacDowell, 'What Value is There in Gus Van Sant's Psycho?', Offscreen Journal, Vol. 9, Issue 7, 2005

• Elizabeth Mullen, 'Do you speak Kubrick? Orchestrating Transgression and Mastering Malaise in The Shining', Image [&] Narrative, June 2009

• Sarah Neely, Adapting to change in contemporary Irish and Scottish culture: fiction to film. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2003

• Thaïs Flores Nogueira Diniz, 'Is Adaptation truly an adaptation?', Ilha do Desterro, Florianópolis, no 51, p. 217- 233, jul./dez. 2006
  

• Dan North, 'Funny Games Funny Games [on Haneke's 'original' and 'remake']' Spectacular Attractions, October 15, 2009

• R. Barton Palmer, 'Introduction', Twentieth-Century American Fiction on Screen, Edited by R. Barton Palmer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, )
  

• R. Barton Palmer, 'Introduction', Nineteenth-Century American Fiction on Screen - Edited by R. Barton Palmer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, )

• Thomas Van Parys, 'Now a Major Motion Picture: Film Adaptations of Literature and Drama', Image [&] Narrative, Issue 23, November 2008

• V.F. Perkins, ''Reconsideration: Le Plaisir: "The Mask" and "The Model"', Film Quarterly (Vol. 63, No. 1, Fall 2009)

• Special Issue of Persuasions (Jane Austen Journal Online Vol. 27, No. 2, 2007) on Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice (2005) (Jane Austen and Mud: Pride & Prejudice (2005), British Realism, and the Heritage Film Carol M. Dole; Inside Out/Outside In: Pride & Prejudice on Film 2005 Laurie Kaplan; Location, Location, Location: The Spaces of Pride & Prejudice Mary M. Chan; “What are men to rocks and mountains?” Romanticism in Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice Sarah Ailwood; Style over Substance? Pride & Prejudice (2005) Proves Itself a Film for Our Time Catherine Stewart-Beer; Little Women at Longbourn: The Re-Wrighting of Pride and Prejudice Sally B. Palmer; A Bennet Utopia: Adapting the Father in Pride and Prejudice Barbara K. Seeber; “The Most Determined Flirt”: The Dynamics of Romantic Uncertainty in Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice Rachel Gollay; Sex and the Scullery: The New Pride & Prejudice Jen Camden The Offending Pig: Determinism in the Focus Features Pride & Prejudice Kathleen Anderson; Joe Wright’s Pride & Prejudice: From Classicism to Romanticism Lydia Martin; “Just What a Young Man Ought to Be”: The 2005 Pride & Prejudice and Transitional Ideas of Gentility Ann M. Tandy; “I am a gentleman’s daughter”? Translating Class from Austen’s Page to the Twenty-first-century Screen Megan A. Woodworth; “A Fearsome Thing to Behold”? The Accomplished Woman in Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice Juliette Wells; Framing Heritage: The Role of Cinematography in Pride & Prejudice Jessica Durgan; Books and Letters in Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice (2005): Anticipating the Spectator's Response through the Thematization of Film Adaptation David Roche; Staging intimacy and interiority in Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice (2005) Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris; Pride and PrejudiceReloaded: Navigating the Space of Pemberley Joyce Goggin)

• Special Issue of Cinemascope on VERSIONS Remakes/Films, Versions/Parodies, No. 2, 2005 (Pierre Sorlin, 'How the Postman Rang Three Times, Or, Why Remakes are Film Analysis'; Daniel Herbert, 'The Thing as Adaptation, Remake and Version; Savas Arsian, 'Zorro of the East'; John Migliore, 'Becoming AUdience Conscious: Hitchcock and The Man who Knew Too Much'; Hans Maes, 'A Celestial Taxonomy of Remakes?'; Massimiliano Gaudiosi, 'Coversiation with Giulio Manfredonia')

• Sally Potter, 'Notes on the Adaptation of the Book Orlando', Virginia Woolf Seminar

• Stuart Price, 'Displacing the Gods? Agency and Power in Adaptations of Ancient History and Myth', Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance, Vol. 1, Issue 2, 2008

• Luca Prono, 'Whatever Happened to Nelson Algren?: Otto Preminger’s Adaptation Of The Man with the Golden Arm', Links & Letters, 6, 1999

• Sara I. Rauma, 'Reinventing the Story: Inventions in the film adaptation The Green Mile by Frank Darabont', PhD Thesis, UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLA, 2006

• Anelise Reich Corseuil, 'Film beyond boundaries: film, migrant narratives and other media', Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies, Vol. 0, No 51 (2006)

• Alistair Renfrew, 'Against adaptation ? the strange case of (Pod) Poruchik Kizhe.', Modern Language Review., 102 (1). 2007, pp. 157-176

• Holger Römers, '“The Moral of the Auteur Theory”: Frank Borzage’s Moonrise (and Theodore Strauss’ Source Novel)', Senses of Cinema, Issue 42, January–March 2007

• Marilyn Rose and Jeannette Sloniowski, '“Home Sweet Havoc”: Howard Engel’s Niagara in Print and Film', Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études canadiennes, Volume 39, No. 3 (Automne 2005 Fall)

• Timotheos Roussos, 'An off-beat adaptation: Orlando', Philament: An Online Journal of the Arts and Culture, Issue 3, 2004

• Steven Jay Schneider, 'A Tale of Two Psychos', Senses of Cinema, 2000

• Anne-Marie Scholz, '"Josef K von 1963...": Orson Welles' ‘Americanized’ Version of The Trial and the changing functions of the Kafkaesque in Postwar West Germany', European Journal of American Studies, No. 1, 2009

• Ian S. Scott, ’"Either you bring the water to L.A. or you bring L.A. to the water": Politics, Perceptions and the Pursuit of History in Roman Polanski’s Chinatown', European Journal of American Studies, No. 2, 2002

• Barbara K. Seeber, 'A Bennet Utopia: Adapting the Father in Pride and Prejudice', Persuasions Online, V.27, NO.2 (Summer 2007)

• Carmen Siu, 'Diabolic Dialogics: Les Possédés, from Dostoevsky to Wajda', Toronto Slavic Quarterly, Issue 13, Summer 2005

• Natalia Skradol, 'Adaptation, 'Adaptation', and Adaptation: Zizek and the Commonplace', Film-Philosophy, Vol. 8, No. 27, 2004

• Lesley Speed, 'A World Ruled by Hilarity: Gender and Low Comedy in the Films of Amy Heckerling', Senses of Cinema, Vol. 22, September 2002

• Jason Sperb, 'The Transmedia Reconstruction of Song of the Soith', Jamais Vu, September 25, 2009

• Robert Stam, 'Hybridity and the Aesthetics of Garbage: the Case of Brazilian Cinema', E.I.A.L. ESTUDIOS INTERDISCIPLINARIOS DE AMERICA LATINA Y EL CARIBE, Vol. 9, No. 1, enero-junio 1998 (Cultura visual en América Latina, Editor invitado: John Mraz)

• D. Bruno Starrs, 'A Queer New World: Adaptation Theory and the Zeugma of Fidelity in Derek Jarman’s The Tempest', AMERICAN@ Vol. IV. Issue 1, 2006

• Lesley Stern, 'Emma in Los Angeles: Clueless as a remake of the book and the city', Australian Humanities Review, August 1997

• Karyn Stuckey, 'Lolita: a journey with Nabokov and Kubrick from the page to the screen', Archives and Auteurs Conference, University of Stirling, September 2009

• Sung-eun Cho, 'Intertextuality and Translation in Film Adaptation', Journal of British and American Studies no.12 (Jun. 2005)

• Robin Swicord, long excerpt from 'Under the Skin: Adapting Novels for the Screen',  In/Fidelity: Essays on Film Adaptation, eds David L. Kranz and Nancy C. Mellerski (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008)

• Alex Symons, 'Mass-Market Comedy: How Mel Brooks Adapted The Producers for Broadway, and Made a Billion Dollars 2001– 2007',  Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance, Vol. 1, Issue 2, 2008

• Antônio João Teixeira, 'The construction of national identity in Shakespeare’s King Lear and its filmic adaptation by Peter Brook', Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies, Vol. 0, No 51 (2006)

• Donato Totaro, 'Psycho Redux', Offscreen Journal, 2004

• Chuck Tryon, 'Transmedia Notes', The Chutry Experiment, September 5, 2009

• Richard Vela, 'The Merchants of Venice: The Importance of Context in Film Versions of the Play', Postscript, 23, No. 2, 2006

• Constantine Verevis, 'Remaking Film', Film Studies, Issue 4, Summer 2004

• William Walling, “Saying What One Thinks: Emma-Emma-at Box Hill.” Re-reading Box Hill: The Practice of Reading the Practice of Everyday Life. Romantic Circles Praxis Ser. (Feb. 2000)

• Tim Watson, 'Improvements and Reparations at Mansfield Park', Literature and Film: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Film Adaptation, Edited by Robert Stam and Alessandra Raengo (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006)

• James M. Welsh, 'Introduction: Issues of Screen Adaptation: What Is Truth?', Issues of Screen Adaptation (Plymouth: Scarecrow Press, 2007)

• Partick West, 'The Convergence Potentials of Collaboration & Adaptation: A Case Study in Progress." M/C Journal 9.2 (2006)

• Susan J. Wolfson, “Boxing Emma, or the Reader’s Dilemma at the Box Hill Games.” Re-reading Box Hill: The Practice of Reading the Practice of Everyday Life. Romantic Circles Praxis Ser. (Feb. 2000)

• Terry Wright, 'Introduction', Thomas Hardy on Screen, Edited by T. R. Wright (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, )

Salman Rushdie, Emory Distinguished Writer in Residence, and Emory film studies professor Matthew Bernstein engage in a lively Creativity Conversation about film and literature at Emory University on March 19, 2009

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Video Essay 1: On Claude Chabrol's Les Bonnes femmes

Mystery Man in Les Bonnes femmes (1960)

It's a really B I G D A Y here at Film Studies For Free. But do, please, be gentle...

This posting brings you the first ever little video essay about a film studies topic (in this case, a single film) produced by this blog's author: Unsentimental Education: On Claude Chabrol's Les Bonnes femmes.

The exercise probably only shows that there's a mighty long way to go with this format for this author before anything near full proficiency in it can be claimed (for example, the voiceover commentary would have sounded a lot better had the person delivering it not been quite so nervous/terrified during the recording). But it's a good enough beginning for what FSFF sincerely hopes will go on to be a regular, if occasional, feature.

The essay has been produced, as previously promised, to coincide with, and thus to contribute to, the final day of the wonderful Chabrol blogathon hosted by Flickhead's blog (see HERE for a list of all the fantastic contributions, so far, to the event).

Some supplementary material about this strange, beguiling film Les Bonnes femmes/The Good Time Girls (France/Italy, 1960, directed by Chabrol), together with a link to a full transcript of the video essay's commentary and some pedagogical and critical reflections on the process of making it, wlll be added to this post as soon as possible. So, do please come back for that. (Updated July 8, 2009: transcript accessible HERE).

But, time was of the essence to join in with the blogathon. So all else can wait. Here below, then, is the essay, archived at FSFF's new supplementary site, for related videos, at Vimeo. It contains a few significant plot spoilers (as few as possible...). Also, please note that, for the purposes of its critical-scholarly analysis and commentary, the essay transforms many of the original elements of the film that it 'quotes', employing newly created still images (and new sounds), slowed motion, and quite heavy (at times) re-editing (including reordering) of image and sound/music.

In other words, you must see the original film, if you haven't done so already. Les Bonnes femmes is currently available on DVD thanks to Kino Video (Region 1 only). It can be ordered from that company's website HERE, or from Amazon.com HERE

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