For the creative writing part of my Master's Thesis, I adapted two short stories into short films. My first screenplay is a free reverie based on Mavis Gallant's "Wedding Ring", a highly blurred and elliptic story. I then chose to work on "Careful", a text by Raymond Carver. Carver's writing is very concise and detail oriented. In itself, it is already almost cinematographic. The external gestures, the outside world express the character's interiority and existential uneasiness. This kind of writing calls for a different approach to adaptation. One that is, in the case of my personal work, much closer to the original text. / My creative writing enterprise raises a certain number of questions regarding the essence of the adaptation process. How should one consider a text when adapting it? Should one stay close to the original, or choose to move away from it, at the risk of betrayal? To what extent can one impose one's own vision, voice, words upon somebody else's work? My critical essay will explore the particular position of the person adapting original texts for cinema. / I will focus more specifically on the case of French author, Eric Rohmer, who rewrote some of his own literary work for cinema Unsatisfied with the written form of his Six Contes moraux short stories, Rohmer felt the need to adapt them to the screen. In the preface to his collection of stories, published in 1974, Rohmer speaks of his relationship to literature and cinema. He thus sets the ground for a vast reflection on the different creative possibilities offered by these mediums. The critical section of my Master's thesis will explore what is at stake in this process of rewriting the Six contes moraux from the literary to the cinematographic form.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.79951 |
| Date | January 2003 |
| Creators | Kandelman, Séverine |
| Contributors | Rivard, Y. (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | French |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Département de langue et littérature françaises.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 002091087, proquestno: AAIMQ98451, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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