The Fine Art of Film Adaptation

Young, Vernon

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“…Film adaptation is, thus, the 'derivation' of motion pictures from other sources such as written narrative, oral sources and drama. Linda Hutcheon (2004) and Vernon Young (1986) regard adaptation to be an art and fine art, respectively, and the point is well established that the praxis and technique of deriving films out of earlier texts is "virtually as old as the machinery of cinema itself" (Andrew 1980: 10 andLeitch 2007: 22) 1 . Several theories and critiques of theories of adaptation have been proffered since the 1940s; these were signposted by, among others, Sergei Eisenstein's classic essay on Charles Dickens and DW Griffiths (1944), Francois Truffaut's "A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema" (1954), and George Bluestone's Novel into Film (1957).…”

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Questions of Adaptation: Bessie Head'sA Question of Powerand Ingrid Sinclair'sRiches

Mboti¹

2014

Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa

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Questions of Adaptation: Bessie Head'sA Question of Powerand Ingrid Sinclair'sRiches

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2014

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“…Film adaptation is, thus, the 'derivation' of motion pictures from other sources such as written narrative, oral sources and drama. Linda Hutcheon (2004) and Vernon Young (1986) regard adaptation to be an art and fine art, respectively, and the point is well established that the praxis and technique of deriving films out of earlier texts is "virtually as old as the machinery of cinema itself" (Andrew 1980: 10 andLeitch 2007: 22) French Cinema" (1954), and George Bluestone's Novel into Film (1957). The field of adaptation studies has, since the mid to late 1970s, become something of a crowded field.…”

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Questions of Adaptation: Bessie Head's A Question of Power and Ingrid's Sinclair's Riches

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2017

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Riches (2001) is a short film directed by Zimbabwean filmmaker Ingrid Sinclair. The film is about a fiercely independent coloured woman, Molly McBride. She is a single-mother who is exiled from South Africa on an exit permit, with her young son Peter, at the height of apartheid in the mid-1980s. Hoping to find peace and a sense of ‘home’ in neighbouring Zimbabwe, Molly settles and finds a job as a primary school teacher in the country side. Before long, however, Molly feels exiled in her new home. Struggling to fit in with the other teachers and with the larger community due to her liberated, ‘city woman’ ways,Molly survives by incessant writing in her journal, and by heavy drinking and smoking. She fights the onset of poverty and mental breakdown by befriending an ostracised old womanfrom the village. Sinclair’s film draws on Bessie Head’s life and work, and significantparallels can be observed between the film and Head’s autobiographical novel A Question ofPower (1974). This article examines Ingrid Sinclair’s short film as an adaptation. It arguesthat Riches not only draws on Bessie Head’s work, but also creatively re-imagines it.

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The Fine Art of Film Adaptation

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Questions of Adaptation: Bessie Head'sA Question of Powerand Ingrid Sinclair'sRiches

Questions of Adaptation: Bessie Head'sA Question of Powerand Ingrid Sinclair'sRiches

Questions of Adaptation: Bessie Head's A Question of Power and Ingrid's Sinclair's Riches

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