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Download gideon trilogy11/17/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Drawing on theoretical debates surrounding how narrative functions in prose fiction and cinema, and supporting my arguments with analyses of novels and screenplays, I discuss the creation of narrative viewpoint and the function and usage of character and dialogue in these two forms. ![]() I argue that predominantly negative attitudes to novel-to-screen adaptations have defined the discipline’s preoccupation with authenticity and fidelity to the source text. ![]() I reflect, in broad terms, on the nature of adaptation and on the historical relationship between film and the novel. First, it interrogates difference and congruence in narrative techniques in the novel and the screenplay. Extracts have been selected either to demonstrate the character development of the Tar Man (an eighteenth-century henchman and eponymous protagonist) or to give a sense of how I have ‘choreographed’ different locations, times and sets of characters within the narrative framework. A time-travelling fantasy set in England and America, the novels straddle the late eighteenth- and twenty-first centuries and feature a large cast of child and adult characters. The creative element of this practice-based thesis comprises extracts from a fictional work for children, The Gideon Trilogy. Text ( The Gideon trilogy : Adaptation as a Narrative Tool in Creative Practice: Reflections on the Nature of Adaption and a Comparison of Narrative Techniques in the Novel and the Screenplay ) The Gideon trilogy : Adaptation as a Narrative Tool in Creative Practice: Reflections on the Nature of Adaption and a Comparison of Narrative Techniques in the Novel and the Screenplay.ĭoctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London ![]()
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