THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF THE LITERARY TEXT ADAPTATION INTO FILM SCRIPT

Keywords: adaptation, literary text, film text, author’s image, semantic changes, flash back, type of narration, film adaptation, verbal, verbal-visual

Abstract

The article offers a comparative analysis of both texts – the literary text of the novel “Everything Is Illuminated” by Jonathan Safran Foer an American novelist, and the film adaptation of the literary text. The article issues the question of the theoretical fundamentals of the literary text adaptation into film script. The problems that arise in the process of literary text transformation into the language of the film text are highlighted. Differential peculiarities of the literary text and its film version are determined. The research proves that the text of the novel “Everything Is Illuminated” has undergone particular semantic changes and the emphasis shifted from verbal to verbal-visual in the film text, nevertheless its communicative function has been preserved.

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Published
2023-02-27
How to Cite
Myronenko, T., & Dobrovolska, L. (2023). THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF THE LITERARY TEXT ADAPTATION INTO FILM SCRIPT. Scientific Journal of Polonia University, 55(6), 64-69. https://doi.org/10.23856/5508
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LANGUAGE, CULTURE, COMMUNICATION