Publication details
Specifika seriálové adaptace (od počátků až po současnost)
| Title in English | Specific Qualities of Series Adaptation (from the Beginning to Present) |
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Paper in proceedings |
| Conference | Intermediální poetika příběhu |
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| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | film adaptation; series |
| Description | The main issue of the essay are television series adaptations. It observes the technologies and approaches used by television medium to retell originally verbal stories in a new audio-visual serial form, including how the medium affects final form of serial adaptation and its subsequent evolution. Furthermore, the the paper focuses on differences between TV series adaptations and other television series and film adaptations emphasizing the genre definition of classic-novel adaptations and their characteristics shared with costume dramas and national heritage film. The analysis is performed on a specific serial adaptations such as The Forsyte Saga, Sňatky z rozumu or Jane Eyre as a fundament of genre and serial adaptations of Charles Dickens' books (Oliver Twist, Little Dorrit, Bleak house) or adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's novells Cranford as an example of latest trends. |