Film Phenomenology and Adaptation

Sensuous Elaboration
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-94-6372-210-0
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 19 g

Reihe: Film Culture in Transition

Film Phenomenology and Adaptation: Sensuous Elaboration argues that in order to make sense of film adaptation, we must first apprehend their sensual form. Across its chapters, this book brings the philosophy and research methodology of phenomenology into contact with adaptation studies, examining how vision, hearing, touch, and the structures of the embodied imagination and memory thicken and make tangible an adaptation’s source. In doing so, this book not only conceives adaptation as an intertextual layering of source material and adaptation, but also an intersubjective and textural experience that includes the materiality of the body.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Richard, David Evan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Introduction. A 'Fleshly Dialogue'

If Only You Could See What I've Seen with Your Eyes

Fuzzy and Sticky: The Stigma of Subjective Impressionism in Adaptation Studies

Beyond 'Intertextual Dialogism': Phenomenology, Film, and a 'Fleshly Dialogue'

Corpus

Works Cited

Chapter One. Grave Visions: Visual Experience and Adaptation

Introduction: Eye-Opener

Visible and Visible: The 'Carnal Density of Vision'

Early Cinema Aesthetics as an Attractive Possibility for Screen Adaptation

Draped in Shadow: Murnau's Nosferatu

Glittering Night: Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula

Conclusion: Out of Sight

Works Cited

Chapter Two. Resonance and Reverberation: Sounding Out Screen Adaptation

Prelude

Acoustic Shape and the Sonic Wizardry of Screen Sound

Listening to the Voice's 'Acoustic, Sensuous Impression'

Heart of Glass: Rendering the Sounds of Depression in The Hours

Alienated Language: Under the Skin

Final Note

Works Cited

Chapter Three. Textural Analysis: Touching Adaptation

Introduction: Scratching the Surface

Skin and Bone: Fleshing Out Tactile Experience in Film Theory

'Thumbprints' and an 'Irritating' Performance: In the Cut's 'Tactile Orientation'

A Touching Sight: Embodied Voyeurism

Conclusion: Final Touch

Works Cited

Chapter Four. Textures of Imagination

Introduction: From Sight to Insight

Wonder, at the Limits of Adaptation Studies

Wonder, Make-Believe, and Simulation: Cognitive Approaches to Imagination

Embodied Imagination and Intercorporeality: Mind the ('Epistemic') Gap!

Inside-Out and Upside-Down: Mood Indigo's Existential Feelings

A Cute Grief: Feeling Blue in Mood Indigo

Conclusion: From Percept to Precept

Works Cited

Chapter Five. (Re-)Mediating Memory's Materiality

Introduction: Tracing Memory's Role in Adaptation

Untangling the 'Thick' Tissue of Memory

Textu(r)al Traces: Memory in Literature and Film

Straight-Laced: The Danish Girl, in Transition

Poison's 'Ambivalent Aesthetic' of Memory

Conclusion: The 'Pressure of the Past', Pushing Towards the Future

Works Cited

Conclusion. Body Language

Arriving at an Embodied Theory of Adaptation

Departures: Towards an 'Ethics of Adaptation'

Works Cited

Bibliography

Filmography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Richard, David Evan
David Evan Richard is a Lecturer in Media at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. He has published articles and essays on film and television aesthetics and experience, adaptation, and philosophy in Adaptation, NECSUS, and Senses of Cinema.