Semiotics of Narration in Film and Prose Fiction

Case Studies of Scarecrow and My Friend Ivan Lapshin

Benjamin Rifkin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

249 Seiten

1994
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-1995-4 (ISBN)

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This interesting study of film adaptation focuses on two pairs of works, each consisting of a Russian novella and a Russian film: V. K. Zheleznikov's 'Scarecrow' (1981) and R. A. Bykov's Scarecrow (1983); and Ju. P. German's 'Lapshin' and A. Ju. German's My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985). The author examines the transformation of the narrator's discourse in the adaptation process and discusses the meaning conveyed by signs and sign systems unique to the filmic text and its medium, including lighting, foregrounding and backgrounding, and the soundtrack. In his analysis, the author demonstrates how filmmakers use sign systems unique to film to add and/or alter meanings conveyed in the literary texts on which their films were based.

The Author: Benjamin Rifkin is an assistant professor of Russian in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He publishes in the areas of film and film adaptation theory, Russian film, and theory and practice of instructed second language acquisition.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.8.1994
Reihe/Serie	Russian and East European Studies in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Culture ; 2
Zusatzinfo	ill.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Slavistik
ISBN-10	0-8204-1995-8 / 0820419958
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-1995-4 / 9780820419954
Zustand	Neuware