Characters as fictional migrants: Atonement, adaptation and the screenplay process

Characters as fictional migrants : Atonement, adaptation and the screenplay process

Hermansson, Joakim (author): Göteborgs universitet,Högskolan Dalarna,Bildproduktion,Gothenburg University,Institutionen för språk och litteraturer,Department of Languages and Literatures

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Intellect Ltd. 2020
2020
English.
In: Journal of Screenwriting. - : Intellect Ltd.. - 1759-7137 .- 1759-7145. ; 11:1, s. 81-97

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Abstract Subject headings

The migration metaphor has been widely used in connection with media adaptions, but the metaphor has remained an abstract figure of speech. Yet, to understand characters as migrants who go through journeys of acculturation when they are adapted for the screen may enhance understanding of both the characters' potential and problems that may arise during the development process. This article proposes that the development of characters and their processes - as fictional beings - can be understood through the use of models that describe real migrants' adaptation processes. Using Christopher Hampton's screenplay drafts for the film Atonement (2001), it outlines how such migratory journeys go hand in hand with screenwriters' problem-solving processes. The article thus develops the idea that migrating characters, in their capacity as fictional beings and the thematic issues that they represent, both adapt to and appropriate their new media environments; simultaneously, they are appropriated by new creative forces and by the conventions of those new media environments, who in turn must adapt to the characters in this process of bi-directional acculturation.

HUMANIORA -- Konst (hsv//swe)
HUMANITIES -- Arts (hsv//eng)
HUMANIORA -- Konst -- Filmvetenskap (hsv//swe)
HUMANITIES -- Arts -- Studies on Film (hsv//eng)
HUMANIORA -- Språk och litteratur -- Litteraturstudier (hsv//swe)
HUMANITIES -- Languages and Literature -- Specific Literatures (hsv//eng)
HUMANIORA -- Språk och litteratur -- Litteraturvetenskap (hsv//swe)
HUMANITIES -- Languages and Literature -- General Literary Studies (hsv//eng)
SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Sociologi (hsv//swe)
SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Sociology (hsv//eng)

adaptation
fictional beings
migration
problem-solving
screenplay development
screenwriting
Interkulturella studier
Intercultural Studies
adaptation fictional beings migration problem-solving screenplay development screenwriting

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