Adaptation, Appropriation, Translation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6225876 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Isa Murdock-Hinrichs (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 133-163 |
| Publication date | 2020-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | boundary 2 (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-3659 • E-ISSN: 1527-2141 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/01903659-8524455 |
| OpenAlex | W3042886768 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
The essay analyzes Grant Gee’s and Stan Neumann’s transformations of W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn and Austerlitz into the cinematic medium. In reproducing Sebald’s methods, both filmmakers undermine traditional filmmaking conventions. By translating and appropriating the stylistics of Sebald’s text, Gee’s work echoes polyvocality and renders the influences and psychological associations of Sebald’s text into externalized fragments that convey the interwoven processes of memory, perception, and spatialization. Neumann reproduces Austerlitz’s observations more faithfully but alters the sequencing of the textual events and incorporates different media into the film. Neumann’s invention of himself as a “character” further undermines the text’s claims to authenticity and, more broadly, the notion of a stable system of signifiers. This intervention of the persona of the translator-filmmaker emphasizes the agency of the translator. Both films are neither adaptations nor translations, but they appropriate elements of Sebald to trace the effects of his techniques
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Appropriation · Art · Art history · Epistemology · Film director · Filmmaking · Intertextuality · Linguistics · Literature · Movie theater · Sociology · Textuality · Literature and Cultural Memory · Memory, Trauma, and Testimony · Philosophy
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
A Theory of Adaptation
The Translator's Invisibility
The Address of the Eye
A Theory of Adaptation
Austerlitz
Rabelais and his world
The “Eternal Return”
Framework
The Literary Adaptation
Experiences in Translation
On Creaturely Life
"Quot;On the Natural History of Destruction" and Cultural Memory
W. G. Sebald - Image, Archive, Modernity
The Roar of the Minotaur
Against World Literature
Romanticism and the Life of Things
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |