Revisiting the systemic approach to the study of film adaptation as intersemiotic translation. Issue 3 (1st September 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Yau, Wai-Ping
• Is Part Of: Translation studies. Volume 9:Issue 3(2016)
• Page Start: 256
• Page End: 267
• Publication Date: 2016-09-01
• Subjects: Film adaptation -- ideology -- interpretant -- intersemiotic translation -- norms -- systems; Translating and interpreting -- Periodicals; 418.0205
• DOI: 10.1080/14781700.2016.1178595
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1478-1700

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article argues that the systemic approach to the study of translation developed by Itamar Even-Zohar and Gideon Toury can be used to address methodological issues arising from the study of film adaptation as a form of intersemiotic translation. Using the concepts of systems and norms developed by Even-Zohar and Toury as heuristic tools, this article puts forward a systemic model of film adaptation that facilitates contextualization and ideological analysis. A case study is presented to illustrate some of the ways in which this systemic model of film adaptation can be put to use.