Film Adaptation and the Real : Subjectivity and Cinematic Mediation / Hee-seung Irene Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Hee-seung Irene, author.

Series:

Psychoanalytic Horizons.

Psychoanalytic Horizons

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film adaptations--History and criticism.

Film adaptations.

Motion pictures--Psychological aspects.

Motion pictures.

Reality in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

A psychoanalytic approach to screen adaptation that examines the role of deep-rooted desire evident in the persisting media practice of adaptation from literature to film. The prevalence of adaptations in cinema – from literary texts – is striking. What does this lead us to think about adaptation? This open access book answers this question from a psychoanalytic perspective by exploring the psychic dynamics underlying screen adaptation as a practice, offering an intriguing window into the desire for adaptation beyond semiotic parameters and industrial factors. Through a series of examples – from Hamlet and Hitchcock, to Kubrick’s The Shining, and Jonze’s Adaptation – the book theorizes film adaptations in relation to their originals. Drawing on the theories of Freud and Lacan, Hee-seung Irene Lee rigorously explains psychoanalytic concepts such as desire, the drive, the Oedipus complex, the uncanny, and anxiety, which are prevalent and remain useful in the vast field of cultural studies. As a result, readers can easily follow the book’s case studies of canonical film adaptations with interest. At the same time, the author attempts to challenge, expand, and renew the usual definition of film adaptation. This fosters interdisciplinary dialogue between philosophical and psychoanalytic speculations on subjectivity and frames adaptation not merely as a specific mode of filmmaking but a universal, primordial task of every speaking being. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

Contents:

Introduction: Screen Adaptation, a Symptom of Culture 1. The Real of a Text and the Task of the Adapter 2. The Oedipus Complex in Film Adaptations of Shakespeare's Hamlet 3. The Resistance to the Originals in Hitchcock's Adaptations 4. The Thing (das Ding) that Speaks of Itself in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining 5. Traversing the Phantasy in Spike Jonze's Adaptation Conclusion: Adaptation, the Metaphor for Subjectivity

Notes:

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ISBN:

9798765138410

OCLC:

1493861611