Adapting Dickens
ISSN: 0212-0410, 2603-8560
Année de publication: 2016
Número: 39
Pages: 91-105
Type: Article
D'autres publications dans: Cauce: Revista Internacional de Filología, Comunicación y sus Didácticas
Résumé
El presente artículo pretende examinar el impacto de Charles Dickens en las adaptaciones cinematográficas más tempranas y, especialmente, analiza el filme The Boy and the Convict (David Aylott, 1909). La influencia de la obra de Charles Dickens en la evolución del cine es innegable. Además de ser uno de los autores más adaptados a la gran pantalla, la estructura narrativa de sus novelas ha inspirado el proceso de ‘narrativización’ cinematográfica. Solo durante la era del cine mudo se contabilizan alrededor de cien adaptaciones de sus novelas. En concreto, nuestro estudio se centra en The Boy and the Convict, una producción británica que se erige como el primer intento de adaptar Great Expectations al cine. Sin embargo, no fue hasta 2001 cuando Graham Petrie estableció la relación intertextual entre esta película y la novela de Dickens. Nuestro propósito es analizar tanto su discurso narrativo como su estilo fílmico, en la creencia de que podrá arrojar nuevas perspectivas sobre el origen de la adaptación cinematográfica.
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