Adaptation and gestic oscillation
Jane Eyre at the National Theatre
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21789325 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeanette D’arcy (0000-0003-4510-7621, Film Independent, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 27-39 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-6421 • E-ISSN: 1753-643X |
| Publisher | Intellect (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1386/jafp_00067_1 |
| OpenAlex | W4224307566 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
This article links scholarship on intertextuality and dialogism applied in the field of adaptation studies with theories of Verfremdungseffekt and semiotics applied in performance and theatre studies via the concept of ‘oscillation’. In its manifestation of the dialogue between ‘same’ and ‘different’, the process and product of adaptation are potentially revelatory in function, and when adapting for the stage this revelatory function makes the act of adaptation gestic in attitude, creating the possibility of activating an interpretive stance in the audience and the potential to effect social change beyond the theatre. These gestic oscillations are explored here via a case study of the Sally Cookson and Jane Eyre Company’s Jane Eyre (2016). The article reads this production as offering a hopeful experience through gestic approaches and utopian moments that promised an intersectional feminist awareness of how gender and race are socially constructed, but ultimately did not go far enough in ‘augmenting’ the adapted text to deliver on this promise
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Intertextuality · Literature · Political science · Scholarship · Semiotics · Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |