- Title
- The trouble with Rebecca
- Creator
- Boyd, David
- Relation
- Hitchcock at the Source: The Auteur as Adaptor p. 117-127
- Publisher
- State University of New York Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- AFTER YEARS OF BEING STUCK IN the backwaters of the academy," asserts Thomas Leitch in a recent survey of the field, "adaptation studies is on the move." In part, this movement is a retreat from, at least in principle, the approach that has dominated the field since the beginning of serious academic study of the cinema, what Leitch terms "fidelity discourse," or critical analysis devoted to measuring, and evaluating, the relative faithfulness of an adaptation to its literary source. Instead, scholars have begun to focus more on "Bakhtinian intertextuality," acknowledging that adaptations, like all other texts, are "afloat upon a sea of countless earlier texts" from which they "cannot help borrowing''. So transformed, adaptation studies would offer a way in which both literary and film scholars might radically transcend a traditional focus on unitary, self-sufficient individual texts and the supposed one-to-one relationship between sources and secondary versions. The study of adaptations would direct itself instead toward accounts of the unlimited, multiform permeability of intertextual relations, perhaps even finding ways, Leitch muses, to dispose of any substantial consideration of an adaptation to its official, acknowledged, and (in some fashion) perpetuated "sources".
- Subject
- fidelity discourse; adaptation studies; literature; film studies
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1325302
- Identifier
- uon:25235
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781438437484
- Language
- eng
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