FILM 2251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Parasitism
9 Feb 2020
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Adaptation: adaptation a creative work that alters another work such that is maintains continuity with that previous work for a particular audience. Adaptation framework: creative work, alteration, continuity, audience, context. Context: the decision of alterations and continuity in an adaptation depends on context, the period when the adaptation is made, time and budget restrictions, and the genre and tone of the adaptation all contribute to context in adaptations. 1910 frankenstein framework: creative work 1910 film, alteration tone, technical limitations, length of film, continuity main characters, main idea, audience general working class, context early era of film, no dialogue, restricted by time/budget. Young frankenstein framework: creative work 1974 film, alteration soft reboot, frankenstein skeptical of his past, continuity characters and setting, audience general, context humorous 70"s reboot. 8 beliefs why literature is better than cinema: anteriority book came first, dichotomous thinking book or movie is better than the other.
