Roubando livros e roubando a cena

Literature and cinema encourage provocative discussions, as well as presenting aesthetic, ideological, cultural and even commercial relevance since both moves voracious markets and both add to their values the faculty of socially problematizing subjects pertinent to human. When these arts are dialogued discussions about how the adaptation process between the semiosis is effective and what results obtained through transposition are relevant and instigating. In the present work we propose to analyze the literary work The Book Thief (2005), by Markus Zusak and his eponymous film adaptation (2013), directed by Brian Percival, in order to find out, mainly, how the process of adaptation and transposition of the Jewish Diaspora into arts whose bordering fields are at the same time so related and so particular

Art · Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies · Globalization and Cultural Identity · Literature, Culture, and Criticism