Abstract
The history of film theory is full of what we might call migrating concepts. From the Russian Formalists which, in their Poetica Kino (Poetics of cinema) adapt concepts initially created as part of literary theory (fabula vs. syuzhet, film as language, cine-stylistics) to David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson and their formalist inspired approach to film studies, from André Bazin and his theory of realism, inspired by phenomenological concepts, the history of film theory can be thought of as a genealogy of crossing borders. The circulation of concepts from literary theory to film theory is also quite astonishing in the theory of adaptation. In the study of the adaptation of literary works for cinema, the travel of concepts (the crossing of borders) can be observed and analysed especially in narrative theory and adaption theory.
Highlights
Introduction: “The Toolbox” The idea of describing theory as a “box of tools” (Foucault, Deleuze 208) is what the conversation between Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze on “Intellectual and Power” is most famous for
Following Nietzsche, Foucault speaks of genealogy not as something resembling a natural history, or the evolution of a species, but as a practice that tracks “the complex course of descent”, which means “to maintain passing events in their proper dispersion”, “to identify the accidents, the minute deviations or the complete reversals, the errors, the false appraisals, and the faulty calculations” (Foucault 81) of theoretical models
The “genealogy” that I am proposing following Foucault and Said is at once a critical practice and a type of analysis – the genealogical analysis of travelling theoretical models
Summary
Introduction: “The Toolbox” The idea of describing theory as a “box of tools” (Foucault, Deleuze 208) is what the conversation between Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze on “Intellectual and Power” is most famous for. Genealogy Following the four stages through which a theory travels I will attempt to map out what I will call the “genealogy” of theoretical models and their road from literary theory to film theory and adaptation studies.
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