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The Changed Media With The Varied Narrative

Posted on:2009-04-20Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:J Y MaFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360245499282Subject:Modern and Contemporary Literature
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In the dissertation,I am trying to avoid both study on film adaptation with impressive previously and respect the object studied organic and completeness.By comparison the differences between film and literary in narrative,we may examine the Narratology built on the literal narrative,surpass the limit of literal narrative and get rid of what apply mechanically literal narrative to study on film,advance the development of the narratology.The dissertation in the beginning is carded the ways and means in the study of the film adaptation,the writer thinks that the Semiotics is a general discipline,which provides valuable theory's resource to my study.Peirce's Semiotics and Saussure linguistic have a large influence on film theory,but when Metz mechanically applied Saussure linguistic to film study,he made some mistakes.We should surpass Metz's limit of theory,and truly pay attention to the picture's specialty.By the virtue of Peters' theory of picture and In garden's text construction,the dissertation is carefully compared the film narrative and literal's from four aspects:story,narrative, meaning and carrier.The ferst,there are comparisons on the different narrative objects.The literature narrative is centred on the hero's utterance,and the film narrative is done on the hero's posture.The hero's utterance in the literature directs both the other hero and the narratee,but the hero's ones do only another in the film.As a linear medium,the literature medium does hardly appear the utterance is multi-levels and multi-directing; but the film medium does the utterance's ones.The literary narrative does hardly represent sounds and voices.The film narrative may represent the real space,time and various things,but the literal narrative does only the idea about them,so the literal narrative often evades object,which it could not represent.Such object may be represented by film narrative.The literal narrative has many limits which is reduced in language self,and the film medium can surpass the limits of the language.We may say that the medium constructs the object and transform the ones based on his characteristics in the process.The second part is to compare their narrative methodes.As a formative art,the film may use compositions of a picture to realise time in the literary narrative,so the frame may show varieties time's form:it may represent the diachronic narrative and synchronic ones.The visual angle in the film's picture often is third person,but the voice's persones is not limited by frame.Therefore,the persons in film are variety and shows mult-lavers,which change continuously.The literal narrative shows singular and stable which is either the first person or the third ones.Film,as a mult-media,it obtains much freedom in operation of time.Just as literary narrative,the film narrative operate the time's length and order.In the meantime,the film narrative has his very complicated characteristics specially in the frequency built,but because the language's abstractness,the literal narrative becomes very simple;and the film narrative has many other methods such as frame,shut,montage and sound with(out) picture display。Because the represent as a whole,the film narrative have not to pause,and the literature narrative often has to pause.Because of the character in the film narrative, the film shows it is endlessly charm,literary narrative,because of linear characteristic,does hardly to realize synchronic narrative,it can only do it by one. Visual sign and sign auditory produce synchronic;it gives synchronic characteristic to the film narrative.The film becomes a compounded narrative;it often includes muir-story.The third charpter is compared the express of the sense in the different texts.The word(character) keeps immediately in contact with the sense.In addition,the literal narrative can express the sense.However,the film narrative express in the liner of the frame relying on the visual thinking which appears on the composition of frame.At the same time,the film narrator often uses varied sound and voices to give the sense to the frame to produce a metaphysical sense.Sometimes,literary narrative has difficult immediate to present things,so sometimes the literal narrative becomes obscure in sense.The plot is a very important method in the express of sense.As a synchronic narrative,what the film can tell mult-stories means that the film can express more than one sense at the same time.The film represents the word and the society as to show the sense of nature and cultureAs a moderu industry fruit and mass media,the material carrier hints the relations between the narrator and the narratee.The relation has large influence on the adaptation,which results in the compressing or cutting down the time or space or both ones.With the exception of this,the adaptation sometimes caters to mass's desire and evades authority or hints his individual thought.The adaptation in fit in with the needs of the market leads to the changes on the hero's identity.Because the picture sign is very complexity,it results very difficulty to study on the adatation.The second,a researchers need to define the nature of the object,but the theorists have hardly to define the film's nature.The third the film study relatives a lot of knowledge,but what the researchers has really knowledge is too lower to the knowledge,which he should have.The result that the researchers have to avoid many problem:such as the light,the music and the perform.Except that,the film narratives have much other form,because of the choice of the objects,the dissertation did not to research.
Keywords/Search Tags:Literature, Film, Adaptations, Semiotics, Narratology
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