Re-identity and Re-presentation in Film Adaptations: Instances of Anglo-American Cinema
Re-identity and Re-presentation in Film Adaptations: Instances of Anglo-American Cinema

Summary/Abstract: Adaptation as a product and as a process of transculturalization and transideologization,would be focal point of discussion regarding the changes performed across cultures andideologies when cinematizing a source text. The new ideological/moral/political niche that thefilm falls into, modes of representation and modes of reception greatly depend on a series ofcontextual elements such as: the political siding of the scriptwriter and director, the identity ofthe new audience, the chronotope of the new version on screen, the cultural frame where the newversion becomes embodied. To put it differently, the new product will much depend on the ‘who’,‘when’, ‘where’ or ‘how’. Given that adaptations evoke language, ideas, policies, images orbehavior that foreground certain groups - religious, genre, national - they must intend to provideno, or a minimum of, offense to racial, cultural, or other identity groups. We could thus bringinto discussion the concept of “political correctness” applied to adaptations.

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