Movie Version Research Articles

Blurred Line between Good and Evil in Moby-Dick and Post-WWII Cinema: How John Huston Read Melville for his Movie Adaptation

John Huston found ambiguity between good and evil in Melville’s Moby-Dick, which he represented in his 1956 movie adaptation. Hans Robert Jauss’ reception theory complements this analysis of both works through the reactions of their audiences. Moby-Dick is analyzed together with its adaptation, considering the work as a fluid text, to offer a deeper perspective on its ambiguity between good and evil. While the novel responds to Transcendentalism’s enthusiastic view of nature and its search for essential truths, Huston’s adaptation reflects how post-WWII cinema was influenced by the conflict and the consequent difficulties in separating good and evil in humans, who were seen as capable of both sublime noble acts and devastating evil.

Critical Exploration of Eliza’s Use of Restricted Code and Elaborated Code in Pygmalion

This research paper explored the character of Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion and its movie adaptation, My Fair Lady, through the use of Restricted and Elaborated Code. These concepts examined Eliza’s transformation from a common flower girl to a duchess at the hands of Henry Higgins. The research employed the qualitative method and used Restricted Code and Elaborated Code concepts presented by Basildon Bernstein in his 2003 book, Theoretical Studies towards a Sociology of Language (Class, Codes and Control) for deductive thematic analysis. Given the context, Eliza’s dialogues and the settings in the play and the movie where she delivered those dialogues were also taken into account because the relationship between social class and language could not be ignored in the society Eliza inhabits. The study also focused on her dilemmas, dreams, desires and struggles to determine the outcomes of Eliza’s transformation, whether it was a blessing or a curse. By analysing Eliza’s use of language and interactions, the findings offered insights into the power dynamics of language and social class in shaping individual’s identity.

Bahram Tavakoli’s the Stranger as a transcultural movie adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire

Bahram Tavakoli’s <i>the Stranger</i> as a transcultural movie adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s <i>A Streetcar Named Desire</i>

A Study on the Effects of ‘You can’t stop Jjanggu(Crayon Shin-chan)’ Content Use, Character Attributes, and Social Psychological Variables on the Intention to Purchase PB Products of Character Collaboration Convenience Store - Focusing on TV animations and the use of the movie version of ‘You can’t stop Jjanggu’ by users in their 20s -

A Study on the Effects of ‘You can’t stop Jjanggu(Crayon Shin-chan)’ Content Use, Character Attributes, and Social Psychological Variables on the Intention to Purchase PB Products of Character Collaboration Convenience Store - Focusing on TV animations and the use of the movie version of ‘You can’t stop Jjanggu’ by users in their 20s -

Visual Design of Chinese Animated Films Infused with Oriental Punk Aesthetics

In recent years, China's movie industry has been advancing, and movies based on ancient myths, which can combine cultural expression with technical expression, have become a hot topic for creation. Especially the ancient mythological novels such as "The Legend of Deification" and "Journey to the West" have become the source of creative ideas for movie adaptations, and Light Chaser Animation, as one of the most important forces in Chinese film production, has been exploring new possibilities for animation movies, inheriting and innovating traditional Chinese cultural elements. Light Chaser Animation, as one of the most important forces in Chinese film production, has been exploring new possibilities for animation films, inheriting and innovating traditional Chinese cultural elements, and has produced the famous "New Gods" series of films, which combines oriental elements and cultural characteristics, blends modernity and tradition, and forms an Oriental Punk style with Chinese characteristics. Oriental Punk not only shows the construction of modernity of Chinese traditional culture, but also the embodiment of cultural self-confidence, and at the same time presents the unique style and aesthetic value of Chinese culture to the world. This article analyzes the visual symbols, color design and action vocabulary of the film New Gods: Yang Jian, and points out a new direction for Chinese films to integrate traditional cultural elements and modern art technology in the creation of new mythological themes.

The Precarious Existence of Jane Austen’s Charlotte Lucas Across Time and Text

Rewritings of Jane Austen’s works are produced following particular literary conventions, philosophies, creative imaginations, and interpretations, which present new readers with fresh stories featuring distinct images. The journey of her works across centuries and continents, as well as their presence in such disparate cultures and historical periods, may well attest to the similarities as well as the important differences among various peoples across the world, despite the social, cultural, and ideological differences between countries. In the American author Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009), a mash-up of nineteenth-century author Jane Austen’s still-popular novel, Charlotte Lucas is indisputably in a difficult situation, not only because of the socio-economic realities of her precarious existence in the novel but also because of the zombie bite she receives. Although Charlotte’s decision to marry Mr. Collins is justified, the mash-up version of the novel still turns her into a zombie, as if indicating a punishment for her marriage to Mr. Collins. However, in his movie adaptation, Pride and Prejudice + Zombies (2016), the American director Burr Steers lets Charlotte survive and remain contentedly married to Mr. Collins, although she is still presented as a vulnerable figure without combat skills who needs the protection of both her husband and Lady Catherine de Bourgh. By following Linda Hutcheon’s adaptation theory, particularly the process of “appropriation and salvaging” (2006), this paper aims to explore the representation of Charlotte Lucas in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and its film adaptation, Pride and Prejudice + Zombies, thereby contributing to the field of adaptation studies with a gender focus.

The Literary Canon Inside and Beyond Academia: Adaptations and Engagements

ABSTRACT While mobile phones, computers, and other reading devices are now well integrated to the academe, streaming platforms (like Netflix) have been increasingly making canonical texts available (as adaptations) to the audience beyond the classroom. These movie adaptations, which do not serve pedagogic functions, are appropriated into the academe recast the relationship between the text and the reader and calls into question the distinction between academic and nonacademic domains—particularly, it questions the borders of the literary canon and the text. If canonical texts constitute the literary field (Bourdieu, 199), how do digital renditions of literary texts alter the constituency of the literary canon? This article, along these lines, examines how accessing canonical literary texts as movie adaptations, as popular renditions, by nonspecialized audiences, on streaming platforms impacts the canon in question. The article argues that movie adaptation of literary texts facilitates the transposition and mobility of the literary canon from an ambit of academic ecology to a nonacademic popular culture. Adaptation, this article argues, helps in the reimagination of the literary canon within the ambit of popular culture.

Price and delay decisions for sequentially released products: The case of transactional streaming services

This research examines how the adjustment of price and delay in the sequential distribution of simultaneously available digital products can maximize revenues. In this dynamic digital market, consumers can choose between different versions of movies that are available after their initial theatrical release. An analysis of weekly sales data of 1,397 movies with more than 50,000 observations, in a random effect control function generalized least square panel model, reveals an inverted U-shaped delay effect. That is, too short and too long delays after the initial cinematic release are both suboptimal. Price and delay interact positively with each other too, such that if the delay is too short, the negative influence of the price becomes amplified. By testing the effects of multiple other success factors, some of which have not been investigated before, this research also reveals pertinent, novel interactions of these variables with price and delay. Finally, to encourage the practical application of these comprehensive results, the authors present an interactive dashboard that managers can use to simulate the optimal price and delay for the different product versions.

The Self-Shaping, Other-Shaping, and Influence of Traditional Chinese Culture in Nezha: Birth of the Devil and Mulan

ABSTRACT With its unique cultural contributions and rich cultural connotations, Chinese culture has become increasingly influential in the world, so how to spread Chinese culture has become the proposition of the times. With this in mind, the purpose of this study is to find the differences between self-shaping and other-shaping and find the best way to adapt and disseminate traditional Chinese culture. Based on both quantitative and qualitative research, this study uses film subtitles, audience reviews, and interview material as samples to analyze the domestic movie Nezha: Birth of the Devil and the foreign movie Mulan. The results show that filmmakers prefer a similar theme and also use many cultural symbols, but have a very different emphasis on movie adaptations. Moreover, both domestic and foreign audiences haven’t formed an inclusive attitude to appreciate foreign movies; therefore, corresponding strategies should be adopted to better suit the audience’s interest and innovate traditional culture. In this way, this study can provide a new perspective for the adaptation and dissemination of traditional Chinese culture.

Hospice Words. Text Mining and Visualizations in Ken Kesey’s Cuckoo’s Nest and Hauben &amp; Goldman’s Movie Script

Miloš Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest film adaptation released in 1975 captures the essence of Ken Kesey’s novel, additionally making some remarkable “European” differences to match the medium of the long picture format. The movie adaptation was made during a time of significant social and cultural change in the United States and finally put in front of the public something that nobody dared to touch in the industry. From a digital perspective, not many Romanian scientific articles have cobbled together and used data mining tools for textual analysis of distributions, recurrences, and term stylometry criteria to highlight information about the characters, attributes, the fundamental or secondary themes of a literary work. With this aim, and with the help of data synthesis and visual representations offered by Voyant Tools, we tried to quantitatively mark how, both in the book and in the film script, the quickly extracted data can comparatively highlight the main protagonists, themes, correlations and other attributes of the novel and the script. For the corpus analysis, we used the movie script available on DailyScript, and the 50th Anniversary Edition of the book, printed by Viking, Penguin Group, in 2012.

Layered Sexism in The Accused

The Accused (1988), a movie adaptation of a real-life event about a gang-raped victim who seeks justice, depicts sexist behavior towards the survivor during the trial. With the main premise of seeking justice for a rape survivor, this movie highlights Sarah’s experience to gain justice through a sexist masculine institution. Referring to the theory of sexism by Manne, this article aims to show how this movie shows sexist behavior toward the survivor during law enforcement. Dialogues that show sexism between characters are used in the analysis of the movie's plot, then used to discuss the portrayal of sexism in The Accused from a feminist point of view. From the dialog and the portrayal of layered sexism, we find that as a movie promoting human rights, The Accused still implies that a woman who does not meet the expected gender roles is undeserving of justice. As a result, a ‘bad’ woman as a victim whose experience is reduced is seen as a norm.

Literary Adaptation in Film: A Boon or a Bane? A Study in Paulo Coelho’s Veronika Decides to Die

This paper focuses on the movie adaptations of literary work. It is about the advantages and disadvantages of converting a novel into a movie. Some of the advantages are visual storytelling, entertainment value, wide audience reach, and collaborative creativity. Disadvantages are time constraints, loss of depth, changes in adaptation, and commercial pressures. In this novel, the protagonist tries to commit suicide by swallowing sleeping pills. Veronika is fed up with her monotonous life and she finds no meaning in her life. Veronika is saved and admitted to a mental institution called Villete. Dr. Igor is the director of the institution who is trying to write a thesis on vitriol poisoning. He believes that vitriol poisoning is the reason for anxiety and depression. He decides to use Veronika for his research. He lies to her that she suffers from a irreversible heart condition and she would die within a week. This awareness creates a change in Veronica’s personality. She starts to do things she likes and it creates a desire in her to overcome her suicidal thoughts.

능력주의 신화에 대한 서브컬처적 상상력의 도전

What is the source of emotion in Demon Slayer? This phenomenon of Demon Slayer may be a response to the era of neoliberalism and meritocracy. This paper attempts to analyze the meaning of tears and emotion in the context of Jean-Luc Nancy’s Finiteness and Judith Butler’s Vulnerability.&#x0D; The blood demons and demon slayers depicted in Demon Slayer are a group led by a few leader and there is a very powerful hierarchy. In that sense, are they all caught up in elitism and meritocracy? If not, where is the line which distinguish humans from blood demons? This problem appears most intensively in the movie version of Demon Slayer: Mugen Train (2020), especially in the scene where Akaza and Rengoku Kyojuro encounter and fight, and the conversation they have there. His response to Akaza, who praises Kyojuro’s abilities and recommends him to become a blood demon, is, “Human gets sick, grows old, and dies. That’s why human is beautiful.” It implies an awareness of human finiteness and vulnerability. What is important is that only here does the possibility of true solidarity arise.&#x0D; Could it be that the subcultural imagination of Demon Slayer provides comfort and solace to those who are exhausted by modern society’s endless competition? In this way, it becomes clear that Demon Slayer, especially Demon Slayer: Mugen Train, is able to succeed as cultural content of our time because it has deep relevance regarding the core issues raised by modern philosophy and shared them with the public.

Analysis of English Literature Student’s Preference of Reading Literary Books or Watching the Movie Adaptation and their Accounts for the Tendency

Thesis. Today’s students are very much influenced by globalisation and advances in technology. This has brought about some changes in the attitudes and perceptions of the new generation of students which are worthy of attention. The present study aimed to shed light on one such shift of focus and explored Iranian literature students' preferences for either reading or watching the movie adaptations of literary works. The second aim of the study was to examine the reasons for their preferences and to analyse them to see where they originated from. Concept. To this end, a mixed methods design was used in which the quantitative data was gathered through a questionnaire from the University of Mazandaran English literature students (N=141). In the questionnaire, their tendencies towards either watching movies or reading literary books was explored. Based on convenient sampling, for the qualitative data, a semi-structured interview was conducted with 5 students from each category to find the reasons behind their preferences. The data from the interviews were transcribed and then content analysed. Results and conclusion. The results showed there existed a higher tendency towards movie watching (58%) among these students. Content analysis of the students’ responses to interview questions also revealed some factors affecting their inclination towards movie watching. The main reason for such a tendency was mentioned to be time constraints. Oher reasons were disclosed which will be reported in the article. The implications of the study will also be discussed fully under conclusion.

Critical Stylistic Analysis of Self-Conflict in Kazantzakis’ The Last Temptation of Christ

The current study investigates the concept of self- conflict in Kazantzakis’ movie version of the novel The Last Temptation of Christ from a critical stylistic perspective. The Last Temptation of Christ is selected as a sample of analysis since it clearly portrays the life of Jesus Christ who struggles with various forms of temptation including fear, doubt, depression, reluctance and lust. Assuming and implying, being one of stylistic tools listed in Jeffries’ (2010) framework, is the only tool examined in this study. Thus, the study aims at showing how such tool is employed by the writer to uncover Christ’s self-conflict. Additionally, the linguistic triggers through which this tool appears are identified to explain further the way linguistic realizations aid to echo the writer’s ideologies to the concept of inner conflict. The study finds out that assuming and implying tool is utilized successfully in this movie as it helps a lot in revealing Christ’s inner conflict in order to live out God’s plan for him while trying to avoid sins. In other words, the linguistic triggers involved in assuming and implying obviously mirror how Christ is challenging to be divine and human.

PROSPECT OF ASIAN AMERICAN BOOK TO MOVIE ADAPTATIONS IN THE HOLLYWOOD ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY

This paper explores the prospects of Asian American book-to-movie adaptations in the Hollywood industry. There have been a large number of book-to-movie adaptations in the history of the American film industry, such as Great Expectation (1946), The Silence of the Lamb (1991), and The Great Gatsby (2013) to mention just a few. Some have also been reported to gain fame and economic success in the global film market. The mentioned book-to-movie adaptations were based on Western authors. Meanwhile, history has witnessed the emergence of Asian American writers such as: Bharati Mukherjee, Amy Tan, Khaled Hosseini, Anchee Min, among others who have played an essential role in the field of American literature. This paper uses a qualitative method by analyzing data from selected Book-to movie adaptations. It is evident that some of them received prestigious awards. Tan’s book-to-movie adaptation The Joy Luck Club (1993), Hosseini’s book-to-movie adaptation The Kite Runner (2007) and Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians (2018) have entered Hollywood to participate in the extremely competitive film market. The study results show that Asian American writers have emerged recently. Second, Asian American book-to-movie adaptations offer unique narratives to American audiences, although only a handful of Asian American book-to-movie adaptations have been produced. In conclusion, despite the promising growth of Asian American literature, readers can realize that Asian American book-to-movie adaptations have to struggle to be able to tap into the Hollywood industry.

Sámi Literature in Norwegian Language Arts Textbooks

Sámi Literature in Norwegian Language Arts Textbooks

Ekranisasi Novel ke Film Dear Nathan: Thank You Salma yang Disutradarai oleh Kuntz Agus

The research was motivated by the numerous movie adaptations of novels that capture public interest. During the process of adapting a novel into a movie, the director makes certain modifications. One such instance is the adaptation of the novel Thank You Salma into the movie Dear Nathan: Thank You Salma. These alterations give rise to both similarities and differences between the novel and the film. The objective of this research is to describe the process of adapting the novel Thank You Salma by Erisca Febriani into the film Dear Nathan: Thank You Salma, directed by Kuntz Agus. The research methodology employed is descriptive qualitative. Data collection techniques involve reading, watching, and taking notes. First, the researchers read the novel. Second, they watched the film to observe and document the process of adaptation. Lastly, the researchers recorded the similarities and differences between the novel and the film, specifically about the adaptation process. The findings reveal that the movie entailed reductions in the plot, characters, and setting, as well as additions to these aspects. Additionally, there were various changes made to the plot, setting, place, and characterization. Furthermore, there were similarities in themes, points of view, language style, and the underlying message conveyed in both the novel and the movie. Despite these changes, the movie successfully attracted a wide audience and received positive feedback on social media, as it addressed social issues related to sexual harassment against women.

Multimodal Literacy in a New Era of Educational Technology: Comparing Points of View in Animations of Children's and Adult Literature

Purpose The paper shows the interpretive impact of different constructions of the point of view available to the reader/viewer in book and animated movie versions of a children's picture book, a novel for pre-adolescents/early teenagers, and a graphic novel for adolescents and adults. Design/Approach/Methods Excerpts from book and animated movie versions of the same story are compared using multimodal analysis of interpersonal meaning to show how the reader/viewer is positioned in relation to the characters in each version, complemented by analyses of ideational meaning to show the effect of point of view on interpretive possibilities. Findings Focusing mainly on multimodal construction of point of view, the analyses show how interpretive possibilities of ostensibly the same story are significantly reconfigured in animated adaptations compared with book versions even when the verbal narrative remains substantially unchanged. Originality/Value The study shows that it is crucial to students’ critical appreciation of, and their creative contribution to, their evolving digital literary culture that in this new era of educational technology, attention in literacy and literary education focuses on developing understandings of digital multimodal narrative art, and that animated movie adaptations are not presented pedagogically as isomorphic with, or simply adjunct to, corresponding book versions.

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