Representing the Filmscript: Cinematic Ekphrasis in Jonathan Coe’s Mr Wilder and Me and Billy Wilder’s Fedora
Representing the Filmscript: Cinematic Ekphrasis in Jonathan Coe’s Mr Wilder and Me and Billy Wilder’s Fedora

Summary/Abstract: The article is dedicated to one of the examples of intermedial relations—cinematic ekphrasis, the representation of one medium in another medium, where at least one of the media is of cinematic nature. The paper takes Lars Elleström’s model as a starting point to better understand the intermedial relationship inside cinematic ekphrasis when the latter has a filmscript as its source medium. First, the article acknowledges cinematic ekphrasis as an intermedial phenomenon. Then, according to Elleström’s formula, it attributes the status of a potential medium to the filmscript. Finally, it takes three case studies—Jonathan Coe’s novel Mr Wilder and Me as a printed book and an audiobook as well as Billy Wilder’s film Fedora—to analyze the transformation of the potential medium of filmscript when being representedin the media of literature and film. The paper leaves much potential for investigation of further examples of cinematic ekphrasis engaging with filmscript in other media products and comparison between them and this paper’s conclusions.

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