The independence of adaptations: the metanarrativity and metafictionality of Ian McEwan´s Atonement adapted for the cinema

Conceiving of cinematographic adaptations as being independent of their source material has come to be the standard approach for most specialists in this area. The stress on fidelity has made way for many other approaches, such as those focused on intertextuality, on the dilemma of form v. content, or on questions of genre and gender. The objective of this article is to present an overview of the principal theories which have been developed in the area as from 2000 in order to support this notion of independence, which will be exemplified by an exposition of the strategies used to adapt the metafictional and metanarrative elements in Atonement (2001) for the cinema.

Dois cisnes à procura de um personagem: uma leitura pirandelliana do filme Cisne Negro

Pós-graduação em Letras - FCLAS

De autor a personagem: Jorge Luis Borges na mira de romancistas latino-americanos

Pós-graduação em Letras - FCLAS

O autor mal-dito: raça e nação no pensamento de Raimundo Nina Rodrigues

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

O autor segundo ele mesmo: a escrita de si em Cadernos de Lanzarote, de José Saramago

Pós-graduação em Letras - FCLAS

A intersemiose texto-história-cinema na minissérie ROMA da HBO

From August 2005 to March 2007, the two seasons (with 12 and 10 episodes respectively) of the award winning miniseries HBO‟s ROME were aired by the Home Box Office (HBO) channel. With screenplay signed by various writers and directors, the TV series was a coproduction of HBO (USA) and BBC (UK) with support from RAI (Italy), and the show was filmed in multiple locations, but mainly in Cinecittà Film Studios in Rome, very famous for having been headquarters also for Federico Fellini‟s movies. In the first season, the miniseries depicts the conquest of Gaul, made by the military genius of Gaius Julius Caesar, and the political trajectory that made him accumulate power to such an extent that this divided Roman citizens into two factions, one supporting and the other opposing him, the latter focused mainly on the historic figure of General Gnaeus Pompey Magnus. The second season shows the period of civil war following the assassination of Caesar, and the future rise to power of his nephew, adopted son and sole heir, Gaius Octavian Augustus, who was destined to overcome his rivals as well as their allies in the triumvirate that had been formed to pursue and punish Caesar‟s assassins. These facts are well known and usually crowd the mind and imagination of every minimally educated person. The HBO series broke new ground not only for the talent of its writers, directors and actors, not only for its visual effects and locations nor for the vibrancy and grandeur of historical scenes – after all, “historical movies” in general do the same – but it has done so also by the (re)construction of historical events from the perspective of a pair of protagonists of whom too little is known: the centurions Titus Pullo and Lucius Vorenus, who are the only low-rank soldiers mentioned by Caesar in his book Commentaries on the Gallic War (Commentarii de Bello Gallico V.44). Thus, the fictionalization of events also took into account several Roman civilization data which were scattered through historical sources and also those that belong to the modern knowledge of material culture, resulting in a TV series whose filmic aesthetics has rare beauty and creativity. From the survey of textual, historical and cultural data put together in this film, as well as the distance featuring the creative space in the dimension of the gap between them, this paper aims to highlight two pivotal moments of visual and narrative strategies of the show: the opening credits footage and the final scenes of the first season of HBO's Rome.

A palavra que faz o passado: narrativa e tradição na literatura e no cinema brasileiros dos últimos anos

This work analysesthe way by which the shortstories“O que veio de longe” and “Faca”, by Ronaldo Correia de Brito, and the movie A festa da menina morta, directed by Matheus Nacthergaele, incorporate regional thematic matrix in contemporary narratives that take again tradition and give it a new meaning.

Um autor polígrafo. um manual insólito. Raul Briquet e história da educação: evolução do pensamento educacional

Estudo de manual de ensino de história da educação

Cinema hollywoodiano no século XXI: o ritmo em abordagem semiótica e os filmes mais vistos de 2001 a 2010

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Maquiagem e a construção de personagens no cinema moderno: estudo do caso Benjamin Button

The o bjective of this dissertation is to present a theoretical essay on the importance of makeup in the creation of characters through the review of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a movie directed by David Fincher based on a short-story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This thesis makes an historica loverview of makeup, including a discussion on its evolution and importance to visual arts, as a background to the analyses of the proposed movie

Cristo si è fermato a Eboli, de Carlo Levi e Francesco Rosi: memórias da cor de olhos tristes

As a hybrid genre, the narrative of Carlo Levi is an objective account and subjective elaboration that are equalized in a literary form. Written between 1943 and 1944, the book evokes with an atmosphere of memoir the period of 1935 and 1936, the writer’s exile. The film based on the narration fragmentizes the daily life of the problematic region and highlights the truth aimed by the discourses composed in times of crises, reinforced by action and expression without provincialism and also without a compensating aristocratic pose. It is possible to see some incapacity of the film by Rosi, natural to a certain degree, to translate the synthesis of literary treatment and socio-historical reflection. For this reason it is necessary to read the adaptation as an attitude about the literary matter and the result of historical experience. The memoir character relies on the artifice that makes good use of the book’s opening, the author’s short monologue, its narrative frame. The presence of paintings materializes the questions about the absurd contained in them

Os diálogos interestruturais na obra de Lourenço Mutarelli : hibridismos e experimentações nas fronteiras entre o romance e o romance gráfico

Pós-graduação em Letras - IBILCE

Guerra conjugal: o cinema antropofágico de Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Pós-graduação em Estudos Literários - FCLAR

O herói clássico e a indústria cultural: a abordagem dos mitos pelo cinema

Esse trabalho aborda a forma como os heróis são retratados atualmente no cinema pela indústria cultural e como se dá a divergência em relação aos heróis clássicos dos mitos gregos. O mito grego adotado como parâmetro para comparação e análise é o que narra a trajetória de Ulisses de volta para a ilha de Ítaca. O filme atual sobre o qual se desenvolve o estudo comparativo do herói no cinema é Capitão América - O Priemiro Vingador, adaptação dos quadrinhos da Marvel para o cinema em 2011, pelo diretor Joe Johnston. O mito surge nos começos de toda civilização, sendo visto como uma história sagrada, da qual tomaram parte os deuses ou seres sobrenaturais que participaram desses acontecimentos. O mito surge nos começos de toda civilização, sendo visto como uma história sagrada, da qual tomaram parte os deuses ou seres sobrenaturais que participaram desses acontecimentos