Shakespeare on the Screen: Brazilian cinema and TV
This article will discuss some of the outstanding Brazilian appropriations of Shakespeare for the screen (both TV and film), focusing on three productions: two films that appropriate Hamlet, the 1971 “marginal film” A Herança, and the 1972 film, O Jogo da Vida e da Morte, a “slum Hamlet”, as well as...
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Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare
2015
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| Mynediad Ar-lein: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Crynodeb: | This article will discuss some of the outstanding Brazilian appropriations of Shakespeare for the screen (both TV and film), focusing on three productions: two films that appropriate Hamlet, the 1971 “marginal film” A Herança, and the 1972 film, O Jogo da Vida e da Morte, a “slum Hamlet”, as well as O Cravo e a Rosa, a 2000/2001 TV novela inspired by The Taming of the Shrew. As Romeo and Juliet has been the play most often adapted to the Brazilian screen, I will briefly discuss five such appropriations: three films and two TV novelas, or telenovelas. Elements of popular Brazilian culture will be highlighted, showing how a bridge between the canonical foreign text and the contemporary Brazilian reality is created, allowing a general audience unused to going to the theatre to have access to the erudite cultural product. Based on Umberto Eco’s notions of translation and transmutation/adaptation, the discussion will attempt to show how not only the target culture but also matter proper to the new medium determine changes in the transmuted construct. |
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