Littérature et cinéma à l’époque des media conglomerates. Gomorra et Suburra : une intertextualité extralittéraire
Cinema has always drawn on literature. In modern times, it even seems to be crowding it out. As early as the 1990s, W.J.T. Michel proclaimed a “pictorial turn”, an epistemological shift that took hold with the rise of photography, cinema and television. The world as book no longer exists, but as ima...
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| Language: | English |
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Association Portugaise d'Etudes Françaises
2025-05-01
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| Series: | Carnets |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/carnets/16272 |
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| Summary: | Cinema has always drawn on literature. In modern times, it even seems to be crowding it out. As early as the 1990s, W.J.T. Michel proclaimed a “pictorial turn”, an epistemological shift that took hold with the rise of photography, cinema and television. The world as book no longer exists, but as image. Literature and cinema meet and complement each other in a conceptual and aesthetic complicity that questions the process of adaptation and problematizes notions of fidelity and betrayal. For Francis Vanoye, adaptation is a work of form, a work of dreams, akin to the pain of childbirth, a struggle, a theft, a plundering. Through the novels Gomorra by Roberto Saviano and Suburra by Giancarlo De Cataldo and Carlo Bonini, two works emblematic of current transmedia and artistic processes, this article explores the evolving relationship between literature and cinema in the age of media conglomerates, a period when “media can no longer be conceived as isolated monads”. The article begins by presenting the relationship between literature and cinema, then analyzes the birth and cinematic derivations of these literary works, and finally deciphers their impact on the collective imagination and contemporary culture. Particular attention is paid to the process of hybridization and intermediality, and to the effects on the notion of authorship, textual authority and auctorial authority, in order to understand whether the literary work is being cannibalized by the cinematographic work. |
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| ISSN: | 1646-7698 |